Energy use efficiency in greenhouse tomato production in Iran

Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6714-6719

  Pahlavan, Reza ^a   Omid, Mahmoud ^a   Akram, Asadollah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Energy productivity; Optimization; Technical efficiency; Yield

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; FERTILIZERS; FRUITS; OPTIMIZATION;

CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS; CROP PRODUCTION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE; EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY; ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY; ENERGY USE; ENERGY-USE EFFICIENCY; GREENHOUSE TOMATOES; INPUT ENERGY; NON-PARAMETRIC; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TOMATO PRODUCTION; TOMATO YIELD; YIELD;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIESEL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FRUIT; OPTIMIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

IRAN;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84975702375     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.10.038     Document Type: Article

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