Sustainable crop production: Highlights on economic, environmental and social life cycle thinking

Effective Economic Model for Greenhouse Facilities Management and Digitalization

“…Specifically, achieving higher productivity levels per cultivation area directly necessitated greater operational expenditures on inputs like nutrients, climate controls, and materials. This aligns with greenhouse research in Austria [19] and Morocco [18], where marginal yields occurred at elevated budget outlays. However, precision monitoring to balance incremental fertilizer gains against toxicity risks could sustain output expansions while mitigating environmental externalities.…”

“…Prior research has demonstrated that technological upgrading in agriculture system is associated with substantive improvements in technical efficiency by enabling higher yields per input consumed. For instance, the adoption of integrated mechanization raised corn productivity to input ratios by over 30% across farms in Spain, and precision monitoring tools similarly expanded technical efficiency for greenhouse operations in Korea [18,52]. Building on this empirical precedent, hypothesis H14 here postulates that next-generation technologies tailored to Uzbekistan's greenhouse expansion will demonstrate analogous technical optimization differentials.…”

“…Numerous recent studies have applied DEA and econometric modeling to assess greenhouse operational efficiency and financial performance across various regions [16][17][18][19]. However, these investigations predominantly focus on generalized frameworks or specific high-income country contexts.…”