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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.

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Energy-use-efficiency cucumber greenhouse energy productivity energy forms.

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Nawal Khamis Al-Mezeini, Department of Soils, Water and Agricultural Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Last-year PhD student at Sultan Qaboos University.

I received my MSc in agricultural engineer from Sultan Qaboos University

I am interest in programming, designing and researches in the field of agriculture.

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Al-Mezeini, N. K., Al-Ismaili, A. M., & Tabook, S. M. (2020). Evaluation of Greenhouse Cucumber Production Sustainability in Terms of Energy Use Efficiency. Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences [JAMS], 24, 24–29. Retrieved from https://journals.squ.edu.om/index.php/jams/article/view/2745
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