English to Russian Social Sciences Agriculture

Energy crops are plants that can be used to make biofuels. The ideal crop can be grown quickly and densely with as little input as possible from farmers on land that's otherwise unusable by agrarians. Once harvested, these energy crops can be converted into biofuel through various processes.
In late 2009, a U.S. energy agency awarded $5 million to Ceres, an energy crop company, to field test high-yield, low-input traits in grasses such as switchgrass, sorghum and miscanthus. Since then, the company has produced test grass yields with up to 50 percent more biomass than other grasses - a promising indicator of success. Above, a Ceres researcher evaluates the performance of biofuel crops.