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The article provides an analysis of the biofuel production and consumption development in Latvia. The biofuel production developed due to the state subsidies which were paid for the produced amount till the year 2010. The present capacities can ensure fulfilment of the norms set by the EU Directive for the consumption of biofuel; there is a competitive production unit with a modern technology and...
Considerable financial means have been invested during the last decade in modernization of agricultural machinery, including purchase of new tractors. As the corresponding EU directive sets gradual, by periods, reduction of the pollutants in the air for the new tractors and the number of such tractors with the specific fuel consumption are known, a methodological approach was offered in 2011 for the...
The article deals with the problems of the provision of farms with the machinery and its use depending on the sizes of the farms, comparing the years 2001 and 2007. The analysis of the farms was made by several parameters - by their number, their technical readiness, and the capacity sufficiency in order to perform field operations in time and high quality. Data are provided about the acquisition...
The article deals with the statistical indices which characterise the renewal rates of the tractor fleet in Latvia, changes in its structure, the quantity of tractors, and their energy intensity. Factors are shown that characterise different rates of the growth of the tractor fleet, the purchasing dynamics of new tractors which have the greatest specific weight among the purchased ones. There are...
The report presents a review of the cranberry growing ecological technologies applied in Latvia depending on the amount of production and its provision with adequate means of mechanisation. The costs are analysed for laying out plantations, the production of the products and the technical means for harvesting, as well as their payback at various volumes of output.
The paper provides data on the development of biological farms in Latvia, and characteristics of the factors which enhance and hamper this process. An increase in the number of these farms is prognosticated due to the EU financing. The tasks of agricultural engineering are characterised in this field, as well as several developments at the Ulbroka Research Centre.
On the basis of sprayer examination methods specified in European countries the approved examination methods have beer, worked out that will be recommended for use for periodical examinations of field sprayers in Latvia. It is recommended te determine the accuracy of the following parameters during the periodical examinations of field sprayers in Latvia - nozzles cross distribution, pump pulsation,...
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