Reference product: apple [kg]
Location: US - United States
This dataset represents the production of 1 kg of apples. The average yield from 2009 - 2012 is 40.8 t/ha. The data are representative for apple production in the United States used for the export market. Mineral NPK fertiliser input is 67-23-48 kg/ha. No organic fertilisers are applied. Total active ingredients (a.i.) applied as pesticides amount to 11.6 kg a.i./ha.
The dataset was modelled within the project 'World Food LCA database (WFLDB)'. The aim of this project was to provide inventories of a broad variety of agricultural products and processes and to cover for each product at least 50% of the global export market. The export share of apples produced in the United States amounts to 9% of the global export (tonnage exported in 2010). The production system regarded in this dataset aimed at representing apples produced in the United States for the export market.
PEF-Quality: data quality rating (DQR) = 2.5 (i.e. good quality). This dataset refers to an average situation; for specific situations exchanges might differ substantially due to site specific parameters
[This dataset has been generated using the system model "Allocation, cut-off by classification". A system model describes how activity datasets are linked to form product systems. The allocation cut-off system model subdivides multi-product activities by allocation, based on a physical properties, economic, mass or other properties. By-products of waste treatment processes are cut-off, as are all by-products classified as recyclable. Markets in this model include all activities in proportion to their current production volume.
Version 3 of the ecoinvent database offers three system models to choose from. For more information, please visit: https://www.ecoinvent.org/database/system-models-in-ecoinvent-3/system-…)]