@misc{10481/101784,
year = {2025},
month = {1},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/101784},
abstract = {Humankind and natural ecosystems are facing global changes. There is a clear influence of human activities due to the
use of contaminant energies among other factors. Therefore, it is a priority to find clean energies with less environmental
impacts coming from bio-friendly production systems. Therefore, the main aim of this research is to examine energy use
patterns, greenhouse gas emission (CO2, N2O, and CH4) and life cycle assessment (LCA) in pistachio (Pistacia vera L.)
production systems. As experimental plots, we selected one plantation located in the North Khorasan province of Iran. Data
were collected from two pistachio orchards with conventional (CPS) and with bio-friendly production systems (BPS). In
2 seasonal years, from 2020 to 2021, a functional unit of 1000kg pistachio was used. The results indicated that total energy
consumption in the conventional pistachio production system reached 58,759.86MJ ha–1 in comparison to bio-friendly
pistachio production systems with 31,149.02MJ ha–1, accounting for 36.0% of fertilizer energy, 26% of diesel energy, and
12.7% of electricity. The energy use efficiency for the CPS and BPS was respectively 0.38 and 0.73, and also energy
productivity for CPS reached 0.01kg MJ ha–1 and BPS 0.02kg MJ ha–1. Results indicated that the direct energy for CPS
was 19.6% and for BPS 39.03%, but indirect energy inputs for CPS and BPS registered 76.4 and 60.5%, respectively. It
was found that the non-renewable form of energy input for CPS was 83.8% and for BPS just 57.6%. We conclude that
chemicals (pesticides, fertilizers), fuel and electricity were the most important inputs for the pistachio production system,
which also influenced total CO2, N2O and CH4 emissions due to chemical inputs for CPS. In CPS and BPS, the total global
warming potential (GWP) was 2445.24 and 1507.99kg CO2eq ha–1, respectively. Compared to CPS, the application of the
BPS method reduces total damage to human health, ecosystems, and resources.},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {Analysis of Energy Use and Environmental Impacts of Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) in Conventional and Bio-friendly Production Systems},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10341-024-01252-z},
author = {Babaeian, Mahdi and Tavassoli, Abolfazl and Rastegaripour, Fatemeh and Rodrigo Comino, Jesús and Caballero Calvo, Andrés},
}