The Role of Agriculture in Climate Change Mitigation—A Polish Example

Biomass, a basic product of agriculture, is one the main sinks carbon in global cycle. Additionally, it can be used as renewable source energy, leading to depletion CO2 emissions. The paper presents results estimations on current and potential share catch crop cultivation climate change mitigation, Poland, where agricultural sector plays significant economic role. estimation assimilation biomass was performed basis our own data yields commonly crops, obtained randomly selected 80 farms content biomass. Calculation energy conducted, assuming its conversion into biogas, literature their biomethane potentials. have shown that crops which are cultivated an area 1.177 mln ha sequestrate 6.85 t yr?1. However, considering total fields for spring cultivation, possible increase sequestration 18.25 yr?1, constitutes about 6% annual emission Poland. Biomethane per hectare particular ranged from 965 1762 m3 CH4 ha?1, were significantly lower compared maize, use biogas plants. due high favorable chemical composition, valuable co-substrate feedstocks with C:N ratio. recovery produced aboveground harvested Poland during year 6327 GWh electricity 7230 thermal energy. Thus, advisable promote wide scale substantial environmental benefits cultivation.