Racjonalizacja użytkowania energii i środowiska w gospodarce żywnościowej

Energy consumption and problems of environment pollution and food production sector are being discussed. The use of primary energy in the agricultural sector is relatively low, whereas energy consumption in different branches of food industry is usually much too high. Reconstruction and modernisation of energy systems in Poland was justified by the change of political and economic systems, the energy (fuels) becoming thus a merchandise object, having equal price of energy carriers to the world ones and no longer a budgetary subsidy for energy. Growing costs of energy decrease the energy consumption and reduce the natural environment degradation. The paper presents possible methods for reducing energy and environment in the food-agriculture sector. Special significance of renewable energy to be used for Polish agriculture is also indicated.