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| Key Data Set Information | |
| Location | ZY-GS-CN |
| Geographical representativeness description | Ganzhou District |
| Reference year | 2012 |
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| Use advice for data set | Users of this LCA data set should ensure the appropriate application of the information to models or assessments that are specific to agricultural practices and environmental impact analyses within similar climatic and geographic locations. Care should be taken to apply the agricultural added value ratios correctly for comparative studies. Exclusions in the data due to incomplete information from respondents should be noted, and assumptions for these gaps should be clearly stated. The distinction between agricultural input and crop production systems must be recognized when analyzing the boundary system of the LCA. |
| Technical purpose of product or process | The corn production process in Ganzhou District, Northwest (Zhangye), is applied in agricultural practices for the cultivation of corn crops which are essential for food, feed, and industrial raw material purposes. The data set represents information relevant for understanding the environmental impact of corn production in terms of resource use, energy consumption, and waste management in the specific geographic context of the downstream area of the Yangtze River. |
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| General comment on data set | The article is based on research data collected from farmers and utilizes the theory of agricultural carbon footprint and life cycle assessment to quantitatively study the size and composition of the carbon footprint of the rice-wheat rotation system in the downstream area of the Yangtze River. Additionally, it further analyzes the factors that influence the carbon footprint. |
| Copyright | No |
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| Functional Unit | 1 t |
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| Data set valid until | 2012 |
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| Technology description including background system | LCA method is used to evaluate the agricultural system of seed corn production, which takes the whole process of product treatment from input to final output as the research object to conduct quantitative analysis and comparison, so as to evaluate the environmental impact of seed corn production [13]. In this paper, the mass of seed corn 1 t is used as the functional unit. The boundary of the system starts from the production of fertilizer and electricity, and ends from the output of agricultural products and pollutants in the crop planting process. In other words, there are two production systems, namely the agricultural material production system and the crop production system |
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