Economic Themes (2010) 48 (2) 6, 217-230
Svetlana Roljević, Vladana Hamović
Abstract: A need for energetic stability, as well as awareness increase on environment preservation, is a key of actualization in using renewable sources of energy worldwide. However, prevailing energetic crisis and high price of fossil fuels have allured numerous countries to turn to their own alternative energetic resources and therefore increase independence from the fossil fuels. The European Union, we tend to join, too, leads obviously in regard to the rest of the world, in usage of alternative sources of energy, because it uses successfully secondary agricultural products. Considering that Serbia uses even 20% of GDP from agro-industry, while the agricultural production participates in creation of GDP with 12%, it is obvious that there is a need for directing the agriculture toward production of alternative forms of energy. With pre-orientation of agricultural husbandries on production of alternative energy would stimulate development and diversification of rural economy, provide needs for the energy and therefore decrease export dependence.
Keywords: Alternative sources of energy; agriculture; decrease of import dependence; diversification of rural economy
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF AGRICULTURE IN STRENGHTENING THE ENERGETIC POTENTIAL IN SERBIA
Svetlana Roljević, Vladana Hamović
Abstract: A need for energetic stability, as well as awareness increase on environment preservation, is a key of actualization in using renewable sources of energy worldwide. However, prevailing energetic crisis and high price of fossil fuels have allured numerous countries to turn to their own alternative energetic resources and therefore increase independence from the fossil fuels. The European Union, we tend to join, too, leads obviously in regard to the rest of the world, in usage of alternative sources of energy, because it uses successfully secondary agricultural products. Considering that Serbia uses even 20% of GDP from agro-industry, while the agricultural production participates in creation of GDP with 12%, it is obvious that there is a need for directing the agriculture toward production of alternative forms of energy. With pre-orientation of agricultural husbandries on production of alternative energy would stimulate development and diversification of rural economy, provide needs for the energy and therefore decrease export dependence.
Keywords: Alternative sources of energy; agriculture; decrease of import dependence; diversification of rural economy
