Open AccessWhich is which, Biomass or Solar for Food and Energy?
Author(s) -
Nobuyasu Ito
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/347/1/012109
Subject(s) - production (economics) , business , agriculture , biomass (ecology) , solar energy , agricultural economics , food processing , resource (disambiguation) , environmental science , natural resource economics , paddy field , sustainable energy , rice farming , sustainable agriculture , agricultural engineering , renewable energy , agronomy , economics , geography , engineering , political science , computer science , computer network , electrical engineering , archaeology , biology , law , macroeconomics
We human beings are now facing and tackling two global issues of energy and environment. Due to the poor policy of rice production control, Rice agriculture is at stake in Japan. Half of the farmers are highly aged over 65 years and successors are not growing up. Paddy fields are not actively and efficiently used. It looks most of them have been planted to the extent of the complaint. In this paper the food and energy production from rice compared with solar power generation is discussed from the effective use of paddy fields because Rice is a buffer resource available for food and energy for sustainable development [1].