Computer Program for Energy Requirement of Sugarcane Production

Abstract

A user-friendly computer program is developed in Visual Basic environment to determine the energy requirement for sugarcane production and other related terms such as energy ratio, specific energy and output energy. Program is also capable to compute renewable / non-renewable and commercial / non-commercial source of energy. The input parameters of the developed program are mainly human (h), diesel (lit.), electricity (kWh), seed (kg), farm yard manure (kg), fertilizer (kg), chemical (kg), machinery (h), number of human labours and yield (kg/ha). The total energy is being calculated with the help of energy equivalents which are already fed in programme for sugarcane crop. The developed program successfully calculates the energy consumption in MJ/ha. The program could prove to be a useful tool for suggesting sugarcane growing farmers the future need of energy input by analysing season to season data.

Računarski program prilagođen korisnicima je razvijen u Visual Basic okruženju, za određivanje energetskih potreba proizvodnje šećerne trske i pripadajućih vrednosti kao što su: odnos energije, specifična energija i izlazna energija. Program takođe može da izračuna i obnovljive / ne-obnovljive i komercijalne / ne-komercijalne izvore energije. Ulazni parametri razvijenog programa su ljudi (h), diesel gorivo (lit.), električna energija (kWh), seme (kg), stajnjak (kg), đubrivo (kg), hemikalije (kg), mašine (h), ljudski rad i prinos (kg/ha). Ukupna energija se proračunava pomoću energetskih ekvivalenata koji su već uneti u program. Razvijeni program uspešno računa potrošnju energije u MJ/ha. Program može da se pokaže kao koristan alat farmerima za predviđanje energetskih potreba u proizvodnji šećerne trske analizom sezonskih podataka.