Suggesting a self-production and self-consumption area about energy by farmland planning methodology

• Project/Area Number: 26740053
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Design and evaluation of sustainable and environmental conscious system
• Research Institution: Nagano University (2015-2016); Tokyo University of Science (2014)
• Principal Investigator: MORIMOTO Hidetsugu 長野大学, 環境ツーリズム学部, 助教 (00632598)
• Research Collaborator: SATOH Shigeru
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: バイオマス / ヤナギ / 小規模農地 / 遊休農地 / 耕作放棄地 / エネルギー効率 / 遊休地 / 経済性 / 作業投入量 / エネルギー / ヤナギ生産 / 生産費用 / 木質バイオマス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research tried to find a possibility of willow production on small farmlands (smaller than a hector) and discussed about a new farmland planning including energy production there through willow yield. We could not confirm that the production was expensive to them with preparing to established farm such as rice, wheat and beans cropping but indicated a possibility of price competition with fossil energy in sight of heat value (MJ/JPY). This study could compile some basic knowledges about the yields on the fields in Japan and indicate a possibility of a new land use for the biomass energy production in anticipation of excessively woody biomass utilization in the future.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 小規模遊休農地の活用に向けたエネルギー作物としてのヤナギ生産の基礎的研究：経済的視点からの考察 (2016)
  • Author(s): 森本英嗣，佐藤 茂，石澤公明，新井 健
  • Journal Title: 農村計画学会誌 Volume: 印刷中
  • NAID: 130006855704
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] A Simplified Method of Harvesting Willow Crops Cultivated as an Energy Source in Short Rotation Coppices in Small-scale Farmlands (2016)
  • Author(s): 森本英嗣，佐藤 茂，小井土賢二
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy Volume: 95 Issue: 1 Pages: 152-155
  • DOI: 10.3775/jie.95.152
  • NAID: 130005121409
  • ISSN: 0916-8753, 1882-6121
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Life cycle cost analysis of willow production on small-scale fields (2014)
  • Author(s): H. Morimoto, S. Satoh, K. Ishizawa and T. Arai
  • Organizer: The 11th International Conference on EcoBalance
  • Place of Presentation: Tsukuba, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-27 – 2014-10-30