I have seen the energy equivalent of crops for instance, potato (3.6), rice (14.7), rice straw (13.4) through literature review.
Is the two, i.e., coefficient or equivalent are the same?
How can we calculate the two for crop like ginger/ turmeric?
@ Heiplanmi, both are different; energy coefficient are are properties of plants/crops used in predicting evapotranspiration (ET) whereas energy equivalent means crops providing feedstock or biomass for renewable fuel.
The most basic crop energy coefficient, Kc, is simply the ratio of ET observed for the crop studied over that observed for the well calibrated reference crop under the same conditions. The crop's water use can be determined by multiplying the calculated ET by a crop coefficient, Kc, which takes into account the difference in ET between the crop and reference evapotranspiration. The crop coefficients, Kc values, represent the crop type and the development of the crop.
Energy equivalent crops are crops cultivated specifically to provide feedstock for energy industries. As biomass is a renewable fuel, besides its present availability, one must consider the annual yield, which is the amount of biomass grown in a year.
You can go through the papers:
Article Energetics, GHG emissions and economics in nitrogen manageme...
2. Devasenapathy, P., Senthilkumar, G., & Shanmugam, P. M. (2009). Energy management in crop production. Indian Journal of Agronomy, 54(1), 80-90.
Regards.
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/10526/EE%2006%20013%20Salokhe%20final%206Nov2006.pdf?sequence=1
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