The greenhouse areas in Iran have expanded rapidly and the greenhouse holders have
shown a great tendency to cultivation of those crops that used to be cultivated in open fields …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

The concept of agricultural and environmental sustainability refers to minimizing the
degradation of natural resources while increasing crop productions; assessment of inflow …

The objective of this work is to apply optimization techniques (OT) including Multi-Objective
Genetic Algorithm (MOGA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for environmental impact …

This article aims to provide a comprehensive review of the empirical literature on
methodologies applied to measure irrigation efficiency. Evaluating production unit efficiency …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important energy intensive cereal crop in India. In the present
study, energy input and output were audited to optimize energy use in rice cultivation using …

In this study a non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to
estimate the energy efficiencies of soybean producers based on eight energy inputs …

In this study energy use pattern for canola production in Golestan province of Iran was
studied and the degrees of technical and scale efficiency of producers were analyzed using …

This paper studies the degree of technical efficiency (TE) and scale efficiency (SE) of
selected greenhouses in Iran and describes the process of benchmarking energy inputs and …

In recent years, environmental impacts of energy consumption in different production
systems have become more adverse. Agricultural systems, as results of food security and …