Study on energy efficiency in corn production of Iran

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 5394-5402

  Banaeian, Narges ^a   Zangeneh, Morteza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agricultural input; Corn; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Energy

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DIESEL FUELS; MACHINERY;

AGRICULTURAL INPUT; AVERAGE ENERGY; CORN; CORN PRODUCTION; ENERGY; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY INPUTS; ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY; ENERGY USE; NET ENERGY; OUTPUT ENERGY; RELEVANT FLUCTUATIONS; SPECIFIC ENERGY; TOTAL ENERGY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MACHINERY; MAIZE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

IRAN;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79961021118     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.06.052     Document Type: Article

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