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With the small deviations, these amounts of gasoline are forecasted for future.
There are no signifi cant disruptions in providing agricultural enterprises with this type
of fuel. However, the price of gasoline is growing by 7 percent almost every year.
Specifi c annual increase of fuel prices occurs in April and September, which coincides
with the main fi eld processes in agriculture—sowing and harvesting time. Owing to
low solvency of agricultural enterprises, it may have a negative effect on proper timing
of production processes. And the price of oil increases worldwide every year. There-
fore, the solution consists in production and use of alternative fuel types, fi rst of all
for agriculture.
The growth of sugar beet production by 2015 and 2020 will facilitate the imple-
mentation of the Law of Ukraine “On Alternative Types of Fuels,” in the part of bio-
ethanol addition into gasoline, as well as reduce the dependence of agricultural pro-
ducers on the market prices of fuel and its import (Table 22.10).

TABLE 22.10 The estimated calculation of bioethanol production based on the productivity
of sugar beet in Ukraine

Forecast

2015 2020

Index

Optimistic Pessimistic Optimistic Pessimistic

Gasoline consumption, total,
thousand tons

4,723 4,723

Including agriculture, thousand
tons

252 252

Share of bioethanol in gasoline
mixtures,%

6 10

Required bioethanol amount,
thousand tons

283 472

Including agriculture, thousand
tons

15.1 25.2

Sugar beet production, thou-
sand tons

26,000 18,200 35,000 25,000

Processing of sugar beets into
sugar, thousand tons

15,090 14,775

Bioethanol, thousand tons 10,000 2,473 19,000 9,350

Molasses output, thousand tons 604 473

Bioethanol production from
molasses, thousand tons

143 112

Bioethanol production from
beets, thousand tons

790 195 1,501 739

Bioethanol production, total,
thousand tons

933 338 1,613 851