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Abstract
Enterprise activity is based on maximization of profit to increase the volume of own capital, to
expand manufacture and to guarantee the earning of profit for the long-term period. Therefore
everyone searches for new sources of the income by means of which it is possible to maximize
cost of the made product. One of new sources of the income in agriculture is a cultivation of
agricultural crops for the energy, heat, fuel (biofuel) manufacture. In this "discussion paper"
the market is examined for biofuel, as well as their competitiveness is analyzed in comparison
to mineral fuels. Germany takes the lead positions on manufacture and use of biofuel among
the countries of the European Union and Ukraine has a big potential on the agricultural commodities
market and big possibilities of development for biofuel. The modern market of biofuel
is characterized by the constant tendency to development and growth of manufacture.
The supply and the demand at the market is strongly depends on the state energy policy. In
the work it is also shown that the production of biofuel is not competitive without state support.