Innovative environmentally friendly technologies for growing sorghum crops to provide alternative energy sources

R&D registration number in UkrISTEI: 0120U102090

What priority area of ​​science and technology does it correspond to: rational environmental management

Research: applied.

Funding source: state budget funds

Perspective for further implementation: to be continued as applied.

Research level: no analogues in the region

Patent availability: two patents filed for registration.

What additional actions require further research: continuation of field research with sorghum crops. Conducting laboratory studies to study the qualitative parameters of sorghum crops. Carrying out chemical-technological and physical-chemical analysis of biomass and pyrolysis.

Brief description, advantages, further prospects for application.

According to the results of the project, varieties and hybrids of sorghum crops adapted to the conditions of the Southern Steppe of Ukraine were identified for cultivation on irrigation and without irrigation; their level of productivity was studied with the determination of the energy output per unit of sown area, a comprehensive economic and energy assessment of their cultivation was carried out, the system of their nutrition was improved based on resource saving, the optimal combination of the studied factors with the maximum output and profitability was recommended. A complex of biochemical studies was carried out to assess the quality of bio-raw materials and energy indicators, an economic and energy assessment of the costs of material, technical, labor and natural resources for growing sorghum crops was carried out. Innovative environmentally friendly elements of the technology for growing sorghum crops for various purposes using modern growth-regulating substances against the background of a moderate dose of mineral fertilizers have been developed, which made it possible to reduce the chemical (anthropogenic) load on soils and plants while maintaining fertility and increasing profitability. product quality and cost reduction. Operational and technological maps for growing agricultural crops, methodological recommendations for the biologized orientation of the innovative technology for growing sorghum crops have been developed, outlining economic and bioenergy efficiency. To provide industrial parks in the zone of the Southern Steppe of Ukraine, as an energy basis, our developments will be of paramount importance. According to the subject, 2 methodological recommendations were published, in particular, “Methodological recommendations for the formation of innovative technologies for growing sugar sorghum in the conditions of the Steppe of Ukraine”, “Methodological recommendations for the development of technological and operational maps for growing sorghum crops”, 2 scientific floors in professional publications, including . 1, included in the scientific and metric bases Web of Science, Scopus and Index Compernicus; 5 abstracts materials.

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