Bauer President: feeding power plants for the first Schwerin. The German farmers want the booming business money with energy commodities. At the same time they see their main expertise, but more for food.
"We farmers are as free entrepreneurs to serve markets where we can earn more," said the President of the German Farmers' Union, Gerd Sonnleitner. He campaigned for power plants do not burn directly, but to feed the cattle and then to produce biogas.
grow on the fields because of the global energy hunger more and more energy resources instead of bread grain or malting barley. The cultivation of energy crops in Germany is, according to Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner (CSU) by 2020 more than doubled. The cultivated area of 1.7 million could be extended to up to 4 million hectares.
"A solution must be found, as we deal with the energy issue," said Sonnenberg. "Bio-energy should first go through the animal's stomach." Plants such as maize should not be burned directly, but be fed, "because we can get the most power out of the dung." That should then be recovered biogas, electricity and heat it again. Estimates of the Association of biogas however there are about 5,000 biogas plants. were just the past year 1000 By the end it will be 5700th
Sonnleitner stressed however: "We see our main expertise in food production." In the future, but which are in his view, energy prices on food prices.
To ensure that the crop rotation for energy crops - it should not sequentially same crops are grown - to make Sonnleitner not worry. There are also opportunities for energy crops, to loosen the rotation - that could follow on Sudan grass maize.
The German Farmers' Association is working to Sonnleitner information to the Federal Environment Ministry's position for an energy concept. By 2020, 18 percent of the energy in the Federal Republic come from renewable sources. Currently there are 9 percent, two-thirds would come from biomass, "said Sonnenberg. (Dpa)
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