[
    {
        "id": "osp-13964",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Evaluation of Greenhouse Cucumber Production Sustainability in Terms of Energy Use Efficiency",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Al-Mezeini",
                "given": "Nawal K."
            },
            {
                "family": "Al-Ismaili",
                "given": "Abdulrahim M."
            },
            {
                "family": "Tabook",
                "given": "Said M."
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/evaluation-of-greenhouse-cucumber-production-sustainability-in-terms-of-energy-use-efficiency",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2020
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences",
        "volume": "24",
        "page": "24",
        "DOI": "10.24200/jams.vol24iss0pp24-29",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2410-1060",
        "abstract": "Sustainable agricultural production could be assessed through energy-use efficiency (EUE). Thus, this paper aims to evaluate the EUE for cucumber greenhouse production in Oman. Data were obtained by interviewing farmers (face-to-face). Result indicated that total energy inputs (e.g. electricity, water, fertilizers and agrochemicals) and total energy output (cucumber yield) were 1159726.0 MJ ha-1 and 89942.9 MJ ha-1, respectively. The highest energy consuming input in the greenhouse production was electricity, consuming 88% of total energy input. This indicates that electricity had again the highest impact in cucumber greenhouse production and 99% of electricity goes for cooling the greenhouse. When all energy inputs were classified into its forms; direct (D) and indirect (ID), and renewable (R) and non-renewable (NR), the highest portion of total energy forms in greenhouse cucumber production was for D and NR energy. The EUE and energy productivity (EP) were found to be 0.07 and 0.10 kg MJ-1, respectively. Energy use in greenhouse cucumber production was inefficient and solar energy need to be implemented to improve cucumber greenhouse sustainability production."
    }
]