The Energy Ecology in Agriculture: The Concept, Application and Management

Abstract

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Reduction. Application of integrated to reduce production costs, to efficiently use human labor and other inputs and to protect the environment. Agricultural productivity is closely linked with the energy. There is directly energy input (derived from mean, animal, electric motors, engines, power tiller and tractors) required for seedbed preparation, sowing or panting, inter-culture weed control, irrigation, harvesting and threshing, transportation, and there are indirect energy input (in the form of seed, fertilizers, organic manures, pesticides, growth regulators, machinery, and structures) which need varying amount of commercial and noncommercial energy source. The case and effect of global warming are basically rooted into the thermal emission, its retention and scattering into the atmosphere, which again can well be attributed substantially to the energy consumption pattern, both in urban and rural families as well as institutions. Any ecosystem in this universe needs energy as the driving force to maintain the system functioning and system behavior and it's no exception to farming ecosystem. The efficient energy consumption, generation and transfer have become a subject not only related to technology and input but also related to management and planning which again is socio-ecological in nature. Efficient energy management practices will help achieve and maintain this delicate balance. A reliable supply of energy, in the right from, at the right time and at affordable prices, is an essential prerequisite for high agricultural productivity. Energy is the ability or capacity to do work, and work is moving something against a force, like gravity. Energy exists in two forms potential and kinetic. Potential energy is the energy at rest {i.e., stored energy) capable of performing work. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion (free energy). Energy is the basic driver for any kind of ecological entity, big or small, medium, or humongous. Energy in Agricultural Ecological has certainly characterized its two basic functions-The production function and the system function.

Reduction of anthropogenic loading on an agroecosystem by increasing its energy efficiency

“…Саме такий підхід застосовують у біологічному землеробстві. Зменшення навантаження на агроекосистему шляхом мінімізіції або припинення застосування хімічних методів захисту рослин також зменшує витрати пального, економічні витрати, витрати людської праці, зношування техніки, що, у свою чергу, зменшує енерговитрати під час вирощування сільськогосподарських культур (Pimentel et al, 1983;Strašil et al, 2015;Tinde et al, 2017).…”