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Ukraine Will Use Sugar Beet to Increase Biofuel Production

Ukraine Will Use Sugar Beet to Increase Biofuel Production
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Ukraine's sugar beet production satisfies domestic demand three times over. The estimated surplus may provide some 4 million tons of biofuel, reported the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Prysyazhnyuk at the press conference in Kyiv. The Ukrainian government has begun the reorientation of the nation's sugar beet industry, announced the official.

Minister Prysyazhnyuk explained that the plummeted demand for sugar resulted in the decision to shift sugar beet industry from producing sugar to providing biofuel. The minister plans to have biofuel program fully up and running in four to five years. Mykola Prysyazhnyuk explained that the land allocated for sugar beet production would yield 60 million tons of sugar beet whereas Ukraine requires only 17-18 million tons. This leaves over 40 million tons in excess that can become the basis for biofuel industry development.

The reform ensued only two months after the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych assigned the respective departments of Ukrainian government to cooperate with the Brazilian institutions working with biofuel in the first half of 2012.

The official at the Embassy of Ukraine in Brazil informed WNU that the representatives of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine have already visited the South American country to study the experience in the field. Having had extensive experience in sugar-cane-based ethanol production Brazil promotes this technology in various, according to The New York Times.

Rising energy demand and high oil prices create favorable conditions for the rapidly growing market of biofuels for producers, according to OECD. Brazil emerged on the global map as a biofuel production leader in the 1990s, surpassing the USA. Several years ago both countries leveled out their biofuel production remaining confident leaders in the market with the EU, China and Canada also becoming strong players. In 2010 Brazil produced 26.2 billion liters (approximately 22.7 million tons) of biofuel (ethanol fuel), informs Renewable Fuels Association. This equals 30.1 percent of world's total ethanol used as fuel.

Currently, the Ukrainian government implements the national project Natural Energy. It includes the insulation of buildings, replacement of boilers, upgrading central heating circuits, and biofuels production. It is planned that waste plants in major Ukrainian cities will produce biomass and convert biogas into energy, according to World News Ukraine.

Date:  26.01.2012

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