Land Use
A problem related to the competition for land use
is whether crops should be used to produce food or fuel.
(1) ______ will be examined in this respect. (1) ______
Firstly, the problem should be viewed in its (2) ______ (2) ______
perspective. When oil prices rose sharply in the 1970s,
countries had to look for alternatives to solve the
resulting crisis.
In developing countries, one of the possible answers
to it is to produce alcohol from (3) ______ (3) ______
This has led to a lot of research in this area, particularly
in the use of (4) ______ . The use of this material resulted (4) ______
from two economic reasons: a (5) ______ in its price and (5) ______
low (6) ______ costs. (6) ______
There are other starchy plants that can be used to produce
alcohol, like the (7) ______ or the cassava plant (7) ______
in tropical regions, and (8) ______ and sugar beet in (8) ______
non-tropical regions. The problem with these plants is
that they are also the people’s staple food in many poor countries.
Therefore, farmers there are faced with a choice:
crops for food or for fuel. And farmers naturally go
for what is more (9) ______ . As a result, the problems (9) ______
involved are economic in nature, rather than technological.
This is my second area under consideration. Finally, there
have already been practical applications of using
alcohol for fuel. Basically, they come in two forms of use:
pure alcohol as is the case in (10) ______ , and a combination (10) ______
of alcohol and gasoline known as gasohol in Germany.