Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
TABLE 22.2
(Continued)
%, 2012 in
comparison with
Crops production indices
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2008
2011
Total cost of 1 t, US $
122.1
96.6
125.5
141.6
174.1
142.6
123.0
Average price of 1 t, US $
143.6
102.2
137.5
166.5
194.6
135.5
116.9
Level of profitability (%)
17.6
5.7
9.6
17.6
11.8
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Corn
Total cost of 1 t, US $
125.9
92.0
120.5
122.6
158.9
126.2
129.6
Average price of 1 t, US $
139.2
111.7
156.5
170.0
190.3
136.7
112.0
Level of profitability (%)
10.6
21.5
29.9
38.6
19.8
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In the context of the world, during the lack of foodstuff, which is an urgent prob-
lem, the international community may most likely prohibit the bioethanol production
using corn and wheat. The byproducts of sugar beet processing are not used directly
for food, which is a relevant confi rmation of the expediency to use it for the bioethanol
production. In addition, there will be no need of reduction of the sugar beet areas but
rather expansion, which in turn will create additional jobs in the sugar beet industry.
Foreign experience of sugar beet production and analysis of the current state of
the domestic sugar beet production show that an important factor for improving the
competitiveness of production in the investigated area is the rational distribution of
sugar beet fi elds. By resolving this issue, the yield and sugar content of roots will be
improved.
On the basis of the soil potential (fertility of the main soil types), the peculiar
features of the climatic conditions, which are determined by the interaction of factors
such as incoming solar radiation, atmospheric circulation, moisture supply, the re-
searchers of the Institute of Bioenergy Crops and Sugar Beets of the NAAS of Ukraine
defi ned a beetroot zone—which is the most favorable zone (as to its soil and climatic
conditions) for sugar beet cultivation [5].
The most favorable growing area for this important agriculture crop (the zone
of suffi cient moisture, the rainfall/precipitation is over 550 mm per year), which al-
lows to produce the sugar beet yields within 55-60 t/ha, are the western regions of
Ukraine—Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Rivne, Ternopil, and Khmelnytskyi. In the
less favorable zone (unstable moisture, the rainfall is 450-480 mm per year) includes
Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Poltava, Sumy, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv regions, we can
obtain guaranteed yield of beets—50-55 t/ha [5].
Still less favorable area of beet cultivation zone (the zone of low moisture, the
rainfall is 430-480 mm per year) is in Kirovohrad and Chernivtsi regions, where we
can obtain the yields of sugar beets at 45-50 t/ha.
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