Energy efficiency improvement and input cost saving in kiwifruit production using Data Envelopment Analysis approach

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2573-2579

  Mohammadi, Ali ^a   Rafiee, Shahin ^a   Mohtasebi, Seyed Saeid ^a   Mousavi Avval, Seyed Hashem ^a   Rafiee, Hamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agricultural production; Data Envelopment Analysis; Optimization; Scale efficiency; Specific energy

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; BENEFIT COST RATIOS; CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS; ECONOMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS; ENERGY INDEXES; ENERGY USE; ENERGY-USE EFFICIENCY; INPUT COSTS; INPUT ENERGY; KIWIFRUITS; NET ENERGY; OPTIMUM ENERGY; RETURNS TO SCALE; SAVING ENERGY; SCALE EFFICIENCY; SPECIFIC ENERGY; TOTAL COSTS;

AGRICULTURE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; FERTILIZERS; OPTIMIZATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FERTILIZER; FRUIT PRODUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; SCALE EFFECT;

ACTINIDIA DELICIOSA;

EID: 79954611815     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.10.036     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. De Jonge A.M. Eco-efficiency improvement of a crop protection product: the perspective of the crop protection industry. Crop Protection 2004, 23(12):1177-1186.
2. Esengun K., Erdal G., Gunduz O., Erdal H. An economic analysis and energy use in stake-tomato production in Tokat province of Turkey. Renewable Energy 2007, 32:1873-1881.
3. Rafiee S., Mousavi Avval S.H., Mohammadi A. Modeling and sensitivity analysis of energy inputs for apple production in Iran. Energy 2010, 35(8):3301-3306.
4. Ozkan B., Akcaoz H., Fert C. Energy input-output analysis in Turkish agriculture. Renewable Energy 2004, 29(1):39-51.
5. Sartori L., Basso B., Bertocco M., Oliviero G. Energy use and economic evaluation of a three year crop rotation for conservation and organic farming in NE Italy. Biosystems Engineering 2005, 91(2):245-256.
6. Mohamadi A., Tabatabaeefar A., Shahan S., Rafiee S., Keyhani A. Energy use and economical analysis of potato production in Iran a case study: Ardabil province. Energy Conversion and Management 2008, 49:3566-3570.
7. Çetin B., Vardar A. An economic analysis of energy requirements and input costs for tomato production in Turkey. Renewable Energy 2008, 33(3):428-433.
8. Moore S.R. Energy efficiency in small-scale biointensive organic onion production in Pennsylvania, USA. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 2010, 25(3):181-188.
9. Mikkola J.H., Ahokas J. Indirect energy input of agricultural machinery in bioenergy production. Renewable Energy 2010, 35:23-28.
10. Sherman H.D. Service organization productivity management 1988, The Society of Management Accountants of Canada, Hamilton, Ontario.
11. Mukherjee K. Energy use efficiency in the Indian manufacturing sector: an interstate analysis. Energy Policy 2008, 36(2):662-672.
12. Singh G., Singh S., Singh J. Optimization of energy inputs for wheat crop in Punjab. Energy Conversion and Management 2004, 45(3):453-465.
13. Adler N., Friedman L., Sinuany-Stern Z. Review of ranking methods in the Data Envelopment Analysis context. European Journal of Operational Research 2002, 140(2):249-265.
14. Dawson P.J., Lingard J., Woodford C.H. A generalized measure of farm-specific technical efficiency. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 1991, 73:1098-1104.
15. Fraser I., Cordina D. An application of Data Envelopment Analysis to irrigated dairy farms in Northern Victoria, Australia. Agricultural Systems 1999, 59(3):267-282.
16. Reig-Martínez E., Picazo-Tadeo A.J. Analysing farming systems with Data Envelopment Analysis: citrus farming in Spain. Agricultural Systems 2004, 82(1):17-30.
17. Chauhan N.S., Mohapatra P.K.J., Pandey K.P. Improving energy productivity in paddy production through benchmarking-an application of Data Envelopment Analysis. Energy Conversion and Management 2006, 47(9-10):1063-1085.
18. Nassiri S.M., Singh S. Study on energy use efficiency for paddy crop using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique. Applied Energy 2009, 86(7-8):1320-1325.
19. Mohammadi A., Rafiee S., Mohtasebi S.S., Rafiee H. Energy inputs-yield relationship and cost analysis of kiwifruit production in Iran. Renewable Energy 2010, 35(5):1071-1075.
20. Charnes A., Cooper W.W., Rhodes E. Measuring the efficiency of decision making units. European Journal of Operational Research 1978, 2(6):429-444.
21. Zhou P., Ang B.W., Poh K.L. A survey of Data Envelopment Analysis in energy and environmental studies. European Journal of Operational Research 2008, 189(1):1-18.
22. Lygnerud K., Peltola-Ojala P. Factors impacting district heating companies' decision to provide small house customers with heat. Applied Energy 2010, 87(1):185-190.
23. Zhang X., Huang G.H., Lin Q., Yu H. Petroleum-contaminated groundwater remediation systems design: a Data Envelopment Analysis based approach. Expert Systems with Applications 2009, 36(3):5666-5672.
24. Cooper W., Seiford L.M., Tone K. Data Envelopment Analysis, a comprehensive text with models, applications, references and DEA-solver software 2004, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Massachusetts, USA.
25. Avkiran N.K. Investigating technical and scale efficiencies of Australian Universities through Data Envelopment Analysis. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 2001, 35(1):57-80.
26. Banker R., Charnes A., Cooper W. Some models for estimating technical and scale inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis. Management Science 1984, 30:1078-1092.
27. Sexton T.R., Silkman R.H., Hogan A.J. Data Envelopment Analysis: critique and extensions. Measuring efficiency: an assessment of Data Envelopment Analysis 1986, 73-105. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA. R.H. Silkman (Ed.).
28. Angulo-Meza L., Lins M.P.E. Review of methods for increasing discrimination in Data Envelopment Analysis. Annals of Operations Research 2002, 116:225-242.
29. Hu J.L., Kao C.H. Efficient energy-saving targets for APEC economies. Energy Policy 2007, 35(1):373-382.
30. Iráizoz B., Rapún M., Zabaleta I. Assessing the technical efficiency of horticultural production in Navarra, Spain. Agricultural Systems 2003, 78(3):387-403.