Which indicators for energy assessment in agriculture in the Energy Performance Plan?

Abstract

The energy balance is a tool widely used in French agriculture at the scale of the farms. It will be the basis for a diagnosis in the French Energetic Performance Plan. It provides data with similarities to accounting ones, but based on physical domain. These data may provide energy indicators, of which meanings and utilization are here examined according to the social expectations from agriculture and to the objectives of the French Energetic Performance Plan.