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Comparison of profitability and competitiveness of field crops suitable for energy production and woody energy crops.
Margit Csipkés, Lajos Nagy, M. Pospíšil
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Abstract
Considering the aims of the European Union the utilisation of biomass for energy purposes gets more and more attention, since the balance of CO2 emission is quite favourable. In Hungary the Northern Great Plain region has heterogeneous agroecological endowments; the rate of lessfavoured areas is also significant, which makes reasonable the profitability analysis of crops for energy production. In this article beside the conventional arable crops (corn, wheat, rape, sunflower), the profitability of woody energy plants (locust, poplar, willow) were examined, since the price of this energy can be considered as competitive in contrast to the gas or any other fossil fuel. In the course of enterprise analyses, brake even point was calculated, the competitiveness was analysed by multi-periodic linear programming model with and without subsidy.