Energetic Potential of Romania’s Grasslands

Abstract

Permanent grasslands represent, all over the world, an asset that contributes to maintaining ecological balance in all other natural ecosystem, a never-ending reservoir of vegetal biomass that supplies most of the necessary food for animals and that can also be an important source of “green energy”. In Romania, only 56% of the grassland area (i.e. 2,200,000 ha) would be enough to cover the necessary fibrous fodder for the cattle, while the rest of 44% (i.e. 1,700,000 ha) could be used to produce energy.

Keywords

• biomass
• cattle
• energy
• permanent grassland