Agro-energy for sustainable agriculture and rural development: Good practices from Slovakia-Serbia bilateral cooperation

Abstract

The monograph contains the experimental results of quantitative and qualitative properties of fast-growing willows and perennial crop Miscanthus grown on agricultural land in south-west Slovakia and Miscanthus, grain Sorghum and Phalaris species in Serbia. Individual chapters are addressed to current state and perspectives of biomass production in rural development and marginal land suitable for biomass production based on examples in Slovakia and Serbia. Estimation of biomass production within case study of the farm Kolíňany (Slovakia) with example of biogas use is included. The economic part of the monograph is devoted to bioenergy on the energy market and to modelling of revitalisation of agricultural land for biomass. Evaluation of economic efficiency of woody plants /Salix/ and perennial crops /Miscanthus/, cultivation of arable land of farms in the conditions of Slovakia and Serbia provides applicable knowledge for practical growers. Overview on EU and national legislation and entrepreneurship support for biomass production is provided as well. The monograph provides valuable information and an overview of current knowledge and trends with a number of literature sources and their comparison with the results of the project team.