Environmental and economic accounting for biomass energy in Ethiopia

Table 3 Estimated crop residues for fuel in Ethiopia, 2015/2016

Crops	Crop area (′000 ha)	Crop output (′000 t)	Residue-to-product ratio	Portion available for fuel	Residues as fuel (′000 t)
Teff	2978	4577	2.4	0.01	110
Barley	1135	2055	1.3	0.03	77
Wheat	1742	4293	1.3	0.03	161
Maize	2959	8213	1.9	0.35	5318
Sorghum	1916	4355	1.9	0.35	2820
Pulses	2089	3171	2.0	0.01	63
Oilseeds	895	810	2.0	0.75	1214
Vegetables	265	1251	0.3	0.75	281
Roots	491	7215	0.3	0.75	1623
Fruits	92	680	0.4	0.75	178
Chat	251	203	1.5	0.75	228
Coffee	654	415	1.5	0.75	466
Sugarcane	30	1377	0.3	0.75	310
Enset	442	5310	1.5	0.75	5974
Other crops	571	1155	1.0	0.35	404
Total	16,509	45,078			19,229

Crop-specific area and production are from [30]. The residue-to-crop product ratios are averages whenever ranges are available [13, 35,36,37,38,39,40]. The proportion of the residues allocated to fuel are primarily based on [18]

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