1. World problems
  2. Overuse of energy resources in agriculture

Overuse of energy resources in agriculture

  • Excesive consumption of energy for food production

Incidence

In the Netherlands, which is the world’s largest producer of glasshouse grown crops, some 10,500 hectares of greenhouses used 120 petajoules (PJ) of natural gas in 2013 — equivalent to about half the amount of fossil fuels used by all Dutch passenger cars

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Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
J5839
DOCID
12058390
D7NID
141261
Last update
Feb 23, 2022