Problems of Information Society, 2022, vo.13, no.1, 11–18 11 Assessment of the impact of the combination of crops with solar concentrators on their productivity Tetyana Baydyk 1 , Masuma H. Mammadova 2 , Ernst Kussul 3 , Graciela Velasco Herrera 4 , Airam Curtidor 5 1,3,4,5 Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología (ICAT), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Circuito Exterior s/n, Cd. Universitaria, México, 04510, México 2 Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information Technology, B.Vahabzade str., 9A, AZ1141 Baku, Azerbaijan 1 t.baydyk@icat.unam.mx, 2 mmg51@mail.ru, 3 ernst.kussul@icat.unam.mx, 4 graciela.velasco@icat.unam.mx, 5 vero_cl83@hotmail.com ORCİD: orcid.org/0000-0002-3095-2032 1 orcid.org/0000-0002-2205-1023 2 orcid.org/0000-0002-2849-2532 3 ARTICLE INFO http://doi.org/10.25045/jpis.v13.i1.02 ABSTRACT Article history: Received 10 September 2021 Received in revised form 15 November 2021 Accepted 18 January 2022 The main factors determining the need for the widespread development of the green economy and the growing need for the use of renewable energy sources are identified. The article highlights the possibility of using green energy devices in agricultural complexes and proposes a model for assessing the impact of using solar concentrators together with the agricultural crops on the productivity of the latter. The comparison is made for two countries – Azerbaijan and Mexico, in which economy the oil industry is leading. It is shown that the relief and climate of both countries have many common features, particularly expressed in the abundance of solar radiation, the predominance of mountainous regions with remote and hard-to-reach settlements that need to create autonomous life support systems. The problem of combining solar energy and agriculture is analyzed, examples of successful experiments in this area are given, objective functions and models are proposed to establish the relationship between the parameters of agricultural fields and the characteristics of concentrators. Keywords: Green economy Solar concentrators Agroecosystem Agricultural crops Plant productivity assessment model. 1. Introduction At present, humanity has particularly felt that the uncontrolled production and use of traditional energy, emissions of which account for 75% of all greenhouse gases polluting the atmosphere, are unavoidably leading the world to a catastrophe. Not by coincidence the issues of reducing the global climate change and the environmental problems, developing a “green economy” and clean energy, providing each inhabitant of the planet with the access to clean energy were the discussion topics at the annual general debate of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly with the participation of leaders of states and governments of 193 member-countries, September 21-27, 2021, New York. The representatives of various countries expressed concern in their speeches over the current situation and specific commitments were made to reduce the hydrocarbon share and “decarbonization” of energy industry in the following ten years in order to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, which is a legal international treaty on climate change [1]. The goal of the Paris Agreement is to keep global warming below 1.5oC compared to pre-industrial levels by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the sources of renewable energy production, and cooperating with various countries to combat the climate change effects. To achieve these goals, several technological solutions modernizing energy supply systems through the introduction of new equipment and the use of renewable energy sources (RES) are already available. Solar photovoltaic stations today originate the development of low-cost and environmentally friendly power supply systems using solar energy in many countries. One of the promising and priority areas for the application of solar energy is agriculture, since it is a leading field of activity ensuring the food security of a country. Therefore, the idea of 13 (1) 2022 www.jpis.az