Improving energy use efficiency of canola production using data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2765-2772

  Mousavi Avval, Seyed Hashem ^a   Rafiee, Shahin ^a   Jafari, Ali ^a   Mohammadi, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agricultural production; Data envelopment analysis; Energy input; Energy saving; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MACHINERY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ENERGY INPUTS; ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY; ENERGY RATIO; ENERGY SAVING; ENERGY USE; ENERGY-USE EFFICIENCY; HUMAN LABOR; NON-PARAMETRIC; RETURNS TO SCALE; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TOTAL ENERGY; YIELD VALUE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CANOLA; CROP YIELD; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DIESEL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SEED;

GOLESTAN; IRAN;

BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS;

EID: 79955662448     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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