Questionnaire Survey on Potential Production of Agricultural Crops for Liquid Fuel: 201-County TVA Region. Bulletin Z-128

摘要

As one segment of a diversified TVA biomass fuels program, an agricultural land inventory is underway to assess the potentials for production of liquid fuels from agricultural crops in the Tennessee Valley region. A questionnaire survey was conducted in the spring of 1981 in cooperation with the State Agricultural Extension Services of the seven Tennessee Valley states. Answers to a number of questions on issues such as farmer attitudes and willingness to make land conversions to biomass fuel crops, present hindrances that farmers might perceive in making these conversions, estimates of underutilized open land, soil erosion concerns, and farmer willingness to be involved in cooperative farm demonstrations, were provided by extension service offices from each of the 201 counties within the TVA watershed and power service area. A summary of the results of the questionnaire survey is included. In order to intermesh county-accessed data with inherent land characteristics, results of the questionnaire were grouped into geographical subareas of counties which approximate twelve major land resource areas within the TVA region. (ERA citation 07:049691)