In recent years, besides the energy issues, the GHG (greenhouse gas) emission, which is the most important cause of global warming, has received high attention. In order to have sustainable development, it is necessary to manage energy usage and GHG emissions in all production processes. This...

Among the different forms of clean energies, solar energy has attracted a lot of attention because it is not only sustainable, but also is renewable and this means that we will never run out of it but the potential of using this form of renewable energy depends on its accessibility. Due to the...

This study was carried out in Esfahan province in Iran in order to model output energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of potato production on the basis of input energies using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Data were collected from 260 farms in Fereydonshahr city with face to face...

The main purpose of this study was to determine energy use efficiency in greenhouse cucumber production using a non-parametric production function. Energy use efficiency of greenhouse cucumber producers was studied and degrees of technical efficiency (TE), pure technical efficiency (PTE) and...

In this study, DEA (data envelopment analysis) was applied to analyze the energy efficiency of wheat farms in order to separate efficient and inefficient growers and to calculate the wasteful uses of energy. Additionally, the degrees of TE (technical efficiency), PTE (pure technical efficiency)...

This study was carried out in Esfahan province of Iran. Data were collected from 260 farms in Fereydonshahr city with face to face questionnaire method. The objective of this study was to predict wheat production yield and (greenhouse gas) GHG emissions on the basis of energy inputs....