Estimating the energy gap in greenhouse cucumber production

Subject Areas : Agriculture Marketing and Commercialization

Bardia Bayat ¹ , Mohammad Hossein Ansari ² , Marjan Diyanat ³ , Ali Mohammadi ‎ Torkashvand ⁴

1 - Department of Agronomy and Horticultural Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Agronomy, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
3 - Department of Agronomy and Horticultural Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Agronomy and Horticultural Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2023-05-27 Accepted : 2023-08-17 Published : 2023-12-01

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