Environmental Impact in Process Tomato Integrated Production
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چکیده
In modern agriculture, the energy that is consumed in every stage of production can be divided in direct (e.g. fuels and lubricants) and indirect (e.g. machinery embodied energy, materials and agrochemicals etc). This energy consumption can be examined further in environmental level as environmental impact. Environmental impact regards to the CO2 that is emitted during the production process and contributes in a negative way to the environment. CO2 can be emitted directly by fuels and lubricants that are used from tractors or other farm machinery and indirectly by any material application, machinery embedded energy and many other field inputs. In this paper, the environmental impact of industrial tomato production in kg of CO2 per kg of product is analyzed and estimated. There is a range in the environmental impact in the 9 different case studies from 0.0606 to 0.1256 kg CO2/kg of tomato.
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