Question

Energy plantation is
A. Growing starch/sugar-rich plants
B. Growing latex rich plants
C. Growing fuelwood trees
D. Growing fruit plants

Answer 1

Hint: Energy plantation is the process of planting trees, which is purely for their future use. To speak technically these plants are selected species of trees and shrubs, which are harvestable comparatively in a shorter time and used as energy in the future.

Complete answer:
In order to explain the energy plantation, the examples are fuelwood plants can be directly used in the stoves and boilers in producing fire, or it can also be processed into methanol, ethanol and other producing gas, so fuelwood plants can be used as directly or indirectly for industrial use, in order to satisfy the local energy needs in a decentralized manner.
So energy plantations provide generally inexhaustible renewable sources of energy, where they are essentially local and independent of unreliable and finite sources of fuel.
The important characteristics features of energy plantation include,
The heat content of wood is very similar to that of coal.
And at the same time wood contains very low sulfur content so it causes very less atmospheric pollution.
After the wood is burnt, the ash which comes from it is also used in fertilizer for the proper growth of crops.
The use of erosion-prone lands for the energy plantation helps to reduce the wind and water erosion, therefore they also minimize the hazards of floods, siltation and also reduce the loss of nitrogen and minerals from the soil.
Energy plantation also helps to provide employment for rural people, and it was believed that one hectare of energy plantation gives employment for seven people regularly.

Note: In energy plantation, the selection of multipurpose species usually provides a number of byproducts like oils, organic compounds, and a different number of fruits and edible leaves and also livestock, etc.