Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Applied Fruit Science, cilt.66, sa.4, ss.1547-1557, 2024 (Scopus)
Globally, in rural areas, the agricultural sector is almost the largest sector in terms of spatial land use. Therefore, agricultural sector outputs and practices are among the key sectors that have impacts on global climate change. Thus, sustainable-based implementation of agricultural activities will play an active role in the process of combating climate change. This study is a regional and product-based inventory in determining a sectoral road map in order to ensure the efficiency of energy use in the agricultural sector and to support sustainable development. The aim of this research is to determine energy efficiency, cost analysis and carbon emissions of the research which is based on grape cultivation in Tekirdağ, Türkiye, conducted during the 2022 period. The research data were obtained based on a face-to-face survey conducted with farmers. This study analyzed the influence of energy equivalent of each stage of agricultural mechanisation level on grape production. According to the findings of this current research, the diesel fuel consumption values per unit area of the inputs in grape cultivation period including the stages such as soil tillage (92.5 l/ha), fertilization (21 l/ha), pruning (5 l/ha), spraying (22.8 l/ha), and harvesting (25.5 l/ha) were computed. Energy input (EI) of chemical fertilization was calculated as 18,163.6 MJ/ha, diesel fuel 4992.02 MJ/ha, spraying 1261 MJ/ha, mechanisation 265.8 MJ/ha, and human labor 56.26 MJ/ha. Total energy consumption per grape production area was calculated as 24,513.77 MJ/ha while energy output (EO) was 85,255 MJ/ha. According to the carbon footprint analysis, it was determined that the highest value was realised in the spraying process with an emission value of 5286.62 kgCO2/ha. The total carbon emission value was determined as 6329.65 kgCO2/ha.