Fuel Consumption - an overview
2002-3-4u2002·u2002Fuel consumption by farm operations is an important source of CO 2 emissions (Fig. 5) [47,48].These operations involve tillage, manufacture and application of fertilizers and pesticides, harvesting, grain drying, heating and cooling, transport, etc. Estimates of C emissions for conventional tillage are 230 kg(C) ha −1 for winter wheat, 165 kg(C) ha −1 for sugar beet, 116 …
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