Other stimulant, spice and aromatic crops, n.e.c.

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Classification mapping

CPC 3.0:01699 · narrower

Source

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1. Scope and Applicability

This PCR guides a foreground data package for one cultivated spice or aromatic crop product from crop establishment and management through harvest and, when selected, the first primary-conditioning handoff. Every data package shall describe one botanical species, one plant organ or product part, one production route, and one physical state at one declared gate. Do not combine different species, organs, fresh and dried states, harvest dates, or production systems in one inventory. A category-level PCR does not make those products interchangeable.

The covered route is managed crop production, harvest or capture of the target plant material, and optional first-stage sorting, cleaning, washing, drying, or other simple stabilization. The declared gate is either (a) the harvested crop at the farm handoff or (b) the same crop product after its first primary conditioning handoff. The dataset shall choose one gate. If conditioning is included, its inputs, outputs, losses, and transport from the field where applicable are included; do not also count the raw harvested material as a second reference output.

This PCR excludes curry powders and pastes, mixed or formulated seasonings, extracted oils or oleoresins, downstream grinding or milling, sterilization, blending, retail packaging, and subsequent storage or distribution. It also excludes wild collection and products assigned by the classification to another specific crop category. This PCR excludes formulated curry powders, pastes and mixed seasonings. The checked-in CPC 3.0 classification artifact identifies the 01699 leaf by title; this crop-only scope does not establish exact coverage of that entire leaf. Its narrower mapping was accepted in docs/adr/cpc-01699.md; classification acceptance does not resolve product-flow UUIDs or approve the methodology.

Annual crops, rhizome crops, and perennial herbs or trees may use different planting, harvest, and productive-period routes. Declare the actual route from current site and crop records. For a perennial crop, report establishment and productive years separately or apply the period-attribution rule in Section 7. For a crop with several intended botanical products, disclose each product and handoff, even when this PCR reference flow covers only one of them.

2. Product Category Identity

Field	Value
canonical_pcr_id	pcr.agriculture-forestry-and-fishery-products.products-of-agriculture-horticulture-and-market-gardening.other-stimulant-spice-and-aromatic-crops-n-e-c
classification_refs	CPC 3.0:01699, classification locator only; mapping relation: narrower
covered_products	One cultivated, unmixed and unextracted spice or aromatic crop product, including a specified species and plant part such as saffron stigmas, turmeric rhizomes, dill herb or seed, thyme, bay leaves, Xylopia aethiopica seeds, or angelica stems, at the declared harvest or first primary-conditioning state
excluded_products	Curry powders and pastes; other mixed seasonings; extracts and essential oils; ground or milled products; sterilized, blended, or otherwise manufactured products; wild-collected material; products covered by another specific crop category
representative_product	One named crop species and plant organ, in one declared fresh or dried state, at either farm harvest handoff or first primary-conditioning handoff
production_route	Managed cultivation → crop-specific productive period → harvest/capture → optional primary sorting, cleaning, washing, drying, or simple stabilization → declared handoff
market_state	Bulk, unblended agricultural crop material with declared species, plant part, grade, and moisture or other relevant state; no retail presentation

3. Reference Flow

Field	Value
What	One crop-specific spice or aromatic plant product at the selected handoff
How much	1 kg net product at the declared state and gate
How well	One botanical species and product part; declared cultivar or variety when known; fresh or dried state; measured moisture content for dried material; declared grade and contamination or rejection criteria
How long or cycle	One identified crop lot and crop cycle. For perennial crops, include the establishment and productive periods or document how establishment burdens are attributed across productive output.
reference_flow_link	reference_product_at_declared_handoff

Field	Value
Reference amount	1
Reference product flow	Crop-specific spice or aromatic product at declared gate (UUID unresolved)
Reference flow property	Mass `93a60a56-a3c8-11da-a746-0800200b9a66`
Reference unit group	Units of mass `93a60a57-a4c8-11da-a746-0800200c9a66`
Reference unit	kg
Required qualifiers	Botanical species; plant organ or product part; cultivar or variety when known; country and production site; annual, rhizome, or perennial route; crop cycle and harvest lot; fresh/dried/other declared state; moisture content for dried product; grade; harvest or first-conditioning gate; whether washing, drying, stabilization, and off-farm transfer occurred

The selected UUID cannot be inferred from a broad crop-family label. Resolve the reference product only after the dataset specifies species, plant part, physical state, gate, geography, and relevant product classification. A candidate area-time flow is not a product reference flow.

Each foreground dataset must explicitly select one actual route, declared gate, product state and output row. Reconcile the selected terminal route with reference_product_at_declared_handoff; normalize that handoff output to the reference quantity and retain preceding-stage outputs as measured transfers. Raw weighing, mass reconciliation and lot traceability requirements continue to apply.

The sole reference output is reference_product_at_declared_handoff, receiving the selected actual route product at the declared gate. Existing route-output ids identify the source and physical state; they are no longer individually fixed to the reference quantity.

4. Measurement and Unit Rules

rule_id	Applies to	Required property	Required unit	Rule
crop_product_mass	Reference product, intermediate crop batches, saleable grades and crop residues	Mass; use the verified property exposed by the selected flow	kg	Record net mass and the material state at each handoff. Do not convert fresh to dry mass without measured moisture and a stated calculation. Keep grade-specific and species-specific amounts separate.
irrigation_volume	Irrigation water	Volume or mass compatible with the verified water flow	m3 preferred; kg permitted with documented conversion	Use metered or supplier-recorded water delivered across the declared product-supply boundary, with source and measurement point. Reconcile any source-abstraction record through supply losses, returns and storage before deriving delivery. Direct foreground abstraction belongs to a source-specific elementary input; internal delivery is not another external purchase. Volume-to-mass conversion needs documented density and conditions. Rainfall remains site context.
product_moisture	Fresh or dried reference and intermediate crop products	Mass fraction of water or water activity, as appropriate	% wet basis and/or dimensionless aw	Record the measurement method, sample basis, date and lot. For a dried-state claim, report the applicable buyer or product specification; do not apply one moisture threshold across all species and organs.
land_occupation	Crop production	Area-time	ha·year	Measure occupied crop area and time for each declared production period. Distinguish annual crop occupation from establishment and productive years of perennial stands.
transport_service	Field-to-conditioner transfer	Mass-distance	t·km	Calculate from net transported crop mass and the loaded distance for the declared route. Report vehicle, load, route, and treatment of empty return separately; do not double-count own-account fuel as a purchased transport service.

5. System Boundary

Boundary Abstraction

Field	Value
declared_starting_condition	The declared crop site and its pre-establishment condition, or the beginning of the explicitly selected crop period for an existing stand; report prior land conversion and perennial establishment when they are inside the study period or attributed to the reference product.
starting_condition_role	Primary crop producer and first-handoff product supplier
product_classification_scope	One CPC 01699 crop product only after species, plant part, physical state, and gate are identified; this PCR does not cover mixed curry powders or pastes and does not imply exact coverage of the full CPC leaf.
recursive_input_rule	Record purchased or transferred seed, rhizome, bulb, cutting, seedling, or other propagation material as an actual input. If propagation material is retained from the same site, disclose its source and avoid recursively linking the same crop output as both an upstream dataset and a foreground input.
upstream_dataset_requirement	Use verified upstream datasets for purchased propagation material, nutrient products, crop-protection products, water supply, energy carriers, and third-party transport or treatment services when included. Record the actual exchanged product and its composition; do not infer an upstream identity from a concrete flow identity verification.
disclosure	State the crop and plant part, site and period, production and harvest route, area and yield basis, product state and moisture, selected gate, conditioning operations, measured grades, off-grade and residue destinations, and all period or shared-asset attribution choices.

Boundary Rules

rule_id	Applies to	Rule	source_ids
crop_route_start	Crop establishment and management	Include crop establishment, productive management and field occupation for the declared crop periods. Include prior conversion only when it occurred within the selected accounting period or is explicitly attributed under the study goal; report the land history either way.	ipcc-2019-managed-soils
harvest_gate	Harvest and first handoff	Treat harvest as a distinct responsibility between managed plant growth and crop conditioning. Record the crop material collected, its state and handoff, plus incidental loss and non-target biomass by actual destination.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017; fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
conditioning_gate	First primary conditioning	Include only the operations performed before the selected first conditioning handoff. Washing is conditional on the actual route; do not add a wash step where the crop or contamination protocol does not require it. Drying and any stabilization are route-specific and require measured inputs and product-state checks.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017; fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
gate_exclusivity	Reference product	A dataset shall select the harvest gate or the first primary-conditioning gate. When conditioning is included, the harvested crop is an internal intermediate and shall not be counted again as the reference product.
route_alternatives	Crop and conditioning technology	Declare the selected crop life-history and technology route. Rainfed and irrigated cultivation, manual and mechanized harvest, and ambient/solar and mechanical drying are route alternatives; report observed coexistence where it occurs and never average distinct crop species or product states into one inventory.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017; fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
process_handoffs	Crop, harvest and conditioning nodes	Identify the input material state, output state, destination and responsible site for each process. Use measured lot transfer records to connect nodes and reconcile input, product, residue, reject and moisture changes.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017

6. Process Inventory Structure

Process Map

process_id	process_name	inclusion	inclusion_condition	role	quantitative_reference
managed_crop_production	Managed crop establishment and production	required	Record annual, rhizome, or perennial route; separate establishment and productive periods for multi-year crops.	Managed biological production	Crop area and production period linked to net target-organ output
harvest_capture	Harvest and field capture	required	Identify manual or mechanized harvest and the actual target organ, collection state and handoff.	Harvest/capture	Net harvested lot by botanical product and grade
primary_conditioning	First primary conditioning and stabilization	conditional	Include when sorting, cleaning, washing, drying, or simple stabilization occurs before the selected gate. If absent, the reference flow leaves at the harvest gate.	Material treatment, preservation and primary conditioning	Net accepted conditioned output and material-state change by lot
declared_reference_handoff	Product Measurement at Declared Handoff	required		foreground	reference_product_at_declared_handoff

Process: Managed crop establishment and production (`managed_crop_production`)

This process owns crop establishment and biological production. It ends at the harvest-ready plant material handoff. For a crop with pre-harvest period inputs, record them against their actual production period. The intended output is the declared species and plant part; any other intended outputs, retained residues, removed residues and losses shall be classified by their observed destination.

Inputs

Product flows

Seed or other propagation material (`propagation_material`)

Record actual seed, rhizome, bulb, cutting, seedling or other planting material supplied to establish or renew the selected crop. Identify botanical source, form, quantity, period and whether it is purchased or retained from the same site. Omit the exchange when no external or transferred material enters the foreground system.

Selected flow: Crop-specific seed or propagation material (identity depends on the declared species and propagation form; UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg or item count as supported by the verified flow
Amount rule: Measured or supplier-recorded planting material, normalized using the crop-period and reference-product records
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate, with the source crop period retained.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_propagation_material
Sources: unsd-cpc-01699
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg propagation material/kg selected product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Fertilizer, urea input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs`)

Include this conditional card only when Fertilizer, urea is actually used in the declared process. For every other actual product or carrier, create a separate atomic exchange with its own identity and measured amount; do not infer its use from this example.

Selected flow: Fertilizer, urea
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg product
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Fertilizer, urea used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate, retaining field and crop-period records.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_nutrient_application

Fertilizer, monoammonium phosphate input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_monoammonium_phosphate`)

Include this conditional card only when Fertilizer, monoammonium phosphate is actually used in the declared process. For every other actual product or carrier, create a separate atomic exchange with its own identity and measured amount; do not infer its use from this example.

Selected flow: Fertilizer, monoammonium phosphate
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg product
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Fertilizer, monoammonium phosphate used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate, retaining field and crop-period records.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_nutrient_application

Fertilizer, potassium chloride input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_potassium_chloride`)

Include this conditional card only when Fertilizer, potassium chloride is actually used in the declared process. For every other actual product or carrier, create a separate atomic exchange with its own identity and measured amount; do not infer its use from this example.

Selected flow: Fertilizer, potassium chloride
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg product
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Fertilizer, potassium chloride used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate, retaining field and crop-period records.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_nutrient_application

Cattle manure, as applied input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_cattle_manure`)

Include this conditional card only when Cattle manure, as applied is actually used in the declared process. For every other actual product or carrier, create a separate atomic exchange with its own identity and measured amount; do not infer its use from this example.

Selected flow: Cattle manure, as applied
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg product
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Cattle manure, as applied used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate, retaining field and crop-period records.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_nutrient_application

Agricultural limestone input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_agricultural_limestone`)

Include this conditional card only when Agricultural limestone is actually used in the declared process. For every other actual product or carrier, create a separate atomic exchange with its own identity and measured amount; do not infer its use from this example.

Selected flow: Agricultural limestone
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg product
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Agricultural limestone used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate, retaining field and crop-period records.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_nutrient_application

Required crop-protection records: before completing the foreground package, enumerate every actually applied formulated product separately, retaining trade name, active ingredient, salt or chemical form, concentration, density where needed, application quantity, date and treated area. Select one physically specific product identity per exchange. Derive active-substance releases separately by substance and receiving compartment. Missing formulation identity is a completeness gap; do not replace it with a generic pesticide, invented example, or assumed zero.

Irrigation water, groundwater (`irrigation_water`)

Conditional one-material exchange: include Irrigation water, groundwater only when the actual route and records establish its use or release. Other products, fuels, waste materials, or emitted species require separate atomic rows with independent quantity, state and identity. No use is inferred from this example.

Selected flow: Irrigation water, groundwater
Flow property / unit: Volume / m3
Amount rule: Measure or calculate only Irrigation water, groundwater for this process and period using route-specific records; do not combine other species or carriers.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Site-specific (site_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 hectare and crop year, then normalize to the selected gate output.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Crop cycle (crop_cycle)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_irrigation

Electricity, medium voltage input (`crop_production_energy`)

Include this conditional card only when Electricity, medium voltage is actually used in the declared process. For every other actual product or carrier, create a separate atomic exchange with its own identity and measured amount; do not infer its use from this example.

Selected flow: Electricity, medium voltage
Flow property / unit: Energy / kWh
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Electricity, medium voltage used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Technology-specific (technology_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 hectare and crop year, then normalize to the selected gate output.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Crop cycle (crop_cycle)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_crop_energy

Diesel fuel input (`crop_production_energy_diesel`)

Include this conditional card only when Diesel fuel is actually used in the declared process. For every other actual product or carrier, create a separate atomic exchange with its own identity and measured amount; do not infer its use from this example.

Selected flow: Diesel fuel
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Diesel fuel used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Technology-specific (technology_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 hectare and crop year, then normalize to the selected gate output.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Crop cycle (crop_cycle)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_crop_energy

Waste flows

Elementary flows

Crop land occupation (`crop_land_occupation`)

Record the crop area and time occupied by the declared product route. For mixed-use fields, measure or document the crop-specific area and period and apply the shared-infrastructure or co-product rules where required.

Selected flow: Agricultural land occupation for the declared crop and land-cover state (UUID unresolved until land class is identified)
Flow property / unit: Area-time / ha·year
Amount rule: Measured crop area multiplied by the attributed occupation period
Value mode: Calculated value (calculated_value)
Specificity: Site-specific (site_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Calculated from collection (calculated_from_collection)
Collection protocol: cp_area_and_land_history
Sources: ipcc-2019-managed-soils
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 10
- Unit: ha-year/t selected product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Land transformation (`crop_land_transformation`)

Include only when land conversion occurs inside the declared study period or is explicitly attributed to the product. Identify initial and final land cover, area, date and evidence. Omit when no qualifying conversion occurred; do not report occupation as transformation.

Selected flow: Land transformation from the recorded initial to final land-cover class (UUID unresolved until land class is identified)
Flow property / unit: Area / ha
Amount rule: Measured converted area; calculate zero only when the site history confirms no conversion in scope
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Site-specific (site_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_area_and_land_history
Sources: ipcc-2019-managed-soils
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 10
- Unit: ha transformed/t selected product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Outputs

Product flows

Harvest-ready target plant material (`harvest_ready_crop_material`)

Record the standing or harvest-ready target organ supplied to the distinct harvest operation. The quantity and product identity shall be the same batch basis used by the harvest input; it is an internal handoff unless the selected system boundary ends at harvest.

Selected flow: One declared species and plant organ in its harvest-ready state (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg at measured moisture, or a declared count unit where mass cannot be measured
Amount rule: Crop-specific harvestable target-organ amount linked to the lot and the harvest output record
Value mode: Calculated value (calculated_value)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Calculated from collection (calculated_from_collection)
Collection protocol: cp_harvest_batch
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg harvest-ready material/kg selected product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Waste flows

Removed non-target crop biomass (`removed_crop_biomass`)

Record non-target biomass removed from the field only when it leaves the crop system as a discard or residue. Biomass retained or incorporated in the field remains in the internal residue and nutrient ledger under crop_residue_to_soil_identity_and_fate; it is neither an exported waste nor a bulk elementary biomass exchange. Quantify only actual substance-specific releases with their receiving compartments. If it is sold or used as a co-product, classify it under the actual intended product output instead.

Selected flow: Crop-specific non-target plant biomass sent to a declared waste destination (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg dry matter where measured
Amount rule: Measured removed mass and actual destination; distinguish dry matter from water loss
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_field_residues
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Physical disposition mass-balance screen
- Range role: QA guardrail (qa_guardrail)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg discarded biomass/kg removed biomass
- Basis: The measured discarded portion of the removed biomass lot
- Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
- Evidence kind: Method formula (method_formula)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Crop-production loss or removed residue (`production_loss_residue`)

Use only for biomass that leaves the production process as a measured discard. Distinguish it from target crop material at harvest, saleable crop products, and residue left on or returned to the field.

Selected flow: Crop-specific biomass removed or discarded before harvest (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg dry matter where measured
Amount rule: Measured amount and destination by crop period; omit if no such removal occurs
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_field_residues
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg loss or residue/kg harvest-ready material
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Elementary flows

Direct soil nitrous oxide (`soil_nitrous_oxide`)

Report direct soil N₂O only when the foreground dataset has the activity data and a selected managed-soils method. Use the factor appropriate to the declared climate, soil, nitrogen inputs and method tier. Keep direct emissions separate from indirect pathways and upstream fertilizer manufacture; disclose any omitted pathways.

Selected flow: Nitrous oxide emitted from managed crop soil to air (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg N2O
Amount rule: Calculate from collected nitrogen additions and the selected IPCC managed-soils method; retain factor choice and N-to-N2O conversion
Value mode: Calculated value (calculated_value)
Specificity: Site-specific (site_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Calculated from collection (calculated_from_collection)
Collection protocol: cp_nutrient_application
Sources: ipcc-2019-managed-soils
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 0.1
- Unit: kg N2O/kg selected product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Process: Harvest and field capture (`harvest_capture`)

Harvest is a separate operation because it removes a declared plant organ from the managed crop and creates a measurable collected lot before primary conditioning. Record the production or field context, actual collection method and handoff. Separate intended outputs from incidental loss and field residue.

Inputs

Product flows

Harvest-ready crop batch (`harvest_ready_batch_input`)

Receive the harvest-ready batch from crop production. Match its species, organ, crop period and lot identifier to the production output; do not treat this as an upstream purchased product.

Selected flow: Internal transfer of the crop-specific harvest-ready material (same unresolved identity as production output)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg at measured moisture, or the same declared count unit used by production output
Amount rule: Reconciled to the harvest-ready output record for the same lot
Value mode: Calculated value (calculated_value)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Calculated from collection (calculated_from_collection)
Collection protocol: cp_harvest_batch
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg harvest-ready batch/kg selected product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Electricity, medium voltage input (`harvest_energy`)

Selected flow: Electricity, medium voltage
Flow property / unit: Energy / kWh
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Electricity, medium voltage used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Technology-specific (technology_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_harvest_energy

Diesel fuel input (`harvest_energy_diesel`)

Selected flow: Diesel fuel
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Diesel fuel used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Technology-specific (technology_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_harvest_energy

Outputs

Product flows

Primary harvested crop product (`harvested_target_product`)

Record the collected target species and plant organ at the measured as-harvested state. This is the reference output only when the selected gate is at harvest; it is an internal intermediate when primary conditioning is included.

Selected flow: Declared species and plant organ at harvest, in the measured fresh or other as-harvested state (UUID unresolved)
Flow property/unit: Mass / kg

Original reference-state unit annotation: Mass / kg at measured moisture

Raw output measurement and reconciliation: Net harvested mass by lot after tare, linked to grade and moisture records

Amount rule: measured net transfer mass, retaining lot, actual product state and moisture basis; reconcile to the final reference output at the declared handoff
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_harvest_batch
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Harvest-lot reconciliation screen
- Range role: QA guardrail (qa_guardrail)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg accepted target product/kg gross target-organ mass handled
- Basis: Measured gross target-organ mass entering harvest and classified lot outputs
- Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
- Evidence kind: Method formula (method_formula)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Lower-grade saleable crop product (`lower_grade_product`)

Record any downgraded target crop that is still sold or transferred for a declared use. It is a separate intended output and handoff, not a waste flow. Identify its grade and destination.

Selected flow: Same declared crop species and plant organ at its actual lower-grade saleable state (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg at measured moisture
Amount rule: Measured saleable downgraded mass by lot and destination
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_grade_and_disposition
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg lower-grade product/kg harvested crop
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Waste flows

Discarded harvest material (`harvest_discard`)

Record material rejected and discarded at harvest. Separate it from material returned to the field, saleable lower grades, material routed for rework, and accepted target output. If reworked, link the lot to the rework operation and count accepted product only once.

Selected flow: Crop-specific rejected or discarded plant material at harvest (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg at measured moisture
Amount rule: Measured amount by reason and destination; omit a zero row only when the lot inspection record supports no discard
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_grade_and_disposition
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Harvest discard mass-balance screen
- Range role: QA guardrail (qa_guardrail)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg discarded material/kg gross harvested material
- Basis: Measured incoming harvest lot before grade and destination separation
- Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
- Evidence kind: Method formula (method_formula)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Elementary flows

Process: First primary conditioning and stabilization (`primary_conditioning`)

This process is included only when primary conditioning occurs before the selected gate. It begins with the raw harvested batch and ends with a declared sorted, cleaned, washed, dried or otherwise stabilized crop product. Describe the pre-treatment state, intervention, post-treatment state and handoff. Washing is optional and shall be omitted when unnecessary. Record accepted, downgraded, rejected, recovered and waste states separately; do not mix different spices or harvest days in batch records.

Inputs

Product flows

Raw harvested crop batch (`raw_harvest_batch`)

Receive the lot from harvest with matching species, plant organ, date, grade and moisture records. Reconcile net received amount to the harvest process output.

Selected flow: Declared crop-specific raw harvested batch (same unresolved identity as harvest output)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg at measured moisture
Amount rule: Weighed net incoming lot, matched to the harvest handoff
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_conditioning_batch
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg raw harvest batch/kg conditioned product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Conditioning wash water (`conditioning_water`)

Include only when washing or wet cleaning is used. Record fresh or supplied water by actual source and quantity. Do not add a default wash exchange: guidance notes washing is not required for every spice and can spread contamination when unnecessary.

Selected flow: Water supplied for actual crop washing or wet cleaning
Flow property / unit: Volume / m3 preferred; use verified selected-flow property and unit
Amount rule: Metered or supplier-recorded volume by batch, including any recirculation or reuse record
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Technology-specific (technology_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 tonne of conditioned product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_conditioning_water
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017; fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
Range: Provisional first-pass screening estimate for an active wash route
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 10
- Unit: m3/t conditioned product
- Basis: One tonne of conditioned crop output; zero applies when no washing occurs
- Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)

Electricity, medium voltage input (`conditioning_energy`)

Selected flow: Electricity, medium voltage
Flow property / unit: Energy / kWh
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Electricity, medium voltage used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Technology-specific (technology_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 tonne of conditioned product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_conditioning_energy

Diesel fuel input (`conditioning_energy_diesel`)

Selected flow: Diesel fuel
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg
Amount rule: Measured quantity of Diesel fuel used by this process and period; report zero or not applicable only when the route records establish absence.
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Technology-specific (technology_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 tonne of conditioned product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_conditioning_energy

Field-to-conditioner transport service (`raw_crop_transport`)

Include this service when raw crop travels from the field to a separate first-conditioning site using third-party freight. For own-account transport, record the actual vehicle fuel or energy in the responsible process instead and omit this service to avoid double counting.

Selected flow: Road freight service for the declared raw crop transfer
Flow property / unit: Mass-distance / t·km
Amount rule: Net crop mass multiplied by loaded route distance; disclose vehicle, load, route and empty-return allocation
Value mode: Calculated value (calculated_value)
Specificity: Route-specific (route_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Calculated from collection (calculated_from_collection)
Collection protocol: cp_conditioner_transport
Sources: iso-14044-lca-allocation
Range: Provisional route screening estimate
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1000
- Unit: t·km/t raw crop
- Basis: One tonne of raw crop on its loaded field-to-conditioner route; zero applies when conditioning occurs at the field site
- Basis kind: Transport service (transport_service)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)

External wastewater treatment service (`wastewater_treatment_service`)

Include only when wastewater from conditioning is sent to an external treatment provider and the treatment is inside the chosen product system. Record the actual service and treatment destination. Do not count a provider service and an onsite treatment process for the same effluent.

Selected flow: Wastewater treatment service for conditioning effluent
Flow property / unit: Mass or volume / native verified service unit
Amount rule: Supplier invoice, treatment log or metered effluent amount by batch
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Site-specific (site_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_conditioning_wastewater
Sources: fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 10
- Unit: m3 treated wastewater/t conditioned product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Outputs

Product flows

Primary conditioned crop product (`conditioned_reference_product`)

Record the net target crop product after the included first conditioning operation. Declare its species, plant part, fresh or dried state, moisture and grade. It is the reference output only when the selected gate is the first primary-conditioning handoff.

Selected flow: One declared crop-specific spice or aromatic product after first primary conditioning (UUID unresolved)
Flow property/unit: Mass / kg

Original reference-state unit annotation: Mass / kg at measured moisture

Raw output measurement and reconciliation: Net accepted output after tare and grading; record mass and lot-level moisture

Amount rule: measured net transfer mass, retaining lot, actual product state and moisture basis; reconcile to the final reference output at the declared handoff
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_conditioning_batch
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Conditioning mass-balance screen
- Range role: QA guardrail (qa_guardrail)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg accepted output/kg raw crop input
- Basis: Net accepted product compared with the incoming raw-crop lot; report removed water separately
- Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
- Evidence kind: Method formula (method_formula)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Lower-grade conditioned product (`conditioned_lower_grade_product`)

Record each lower-grade product separately when it is sold or handed off for a declared use. It remains an intended product output; do not record the same mass as waste or as accepted reference product.

Selected flow: Same crop-specific material in its actual lower-grade conditioned state (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg at measured moisture
Amount rule: Measured net amount by grade and destination
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_grade_and_disposition
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg lower-grade conditioned product/kg raw crop input
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Waste flows

Conditioning rejects and discarded residues (`conditioning_rejects`)

Record cleaning rejects, foreign matter, non-saleable damaged material and discarded residues by destination. Rework, recovery and saleable lower grades remain separate routes. Do not count the same mass as both rejected waste and product.

Selected flow: Crop-specific rejected material and conditioning residue sent to a declared waste destination (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg at measured moisture or dry matter, as reported
Amount rule: Weighed or sampled amount by incoming batch and actual destination
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Product-specific (product_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_grade_and_disposition
Sources: codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017; fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
Range: Conditioning reject mass-balance screen
- Range role: QA guardrail (qa_guardrail)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg discarded material/kg raw crop input
- Basis: Measured incoming raw-crop lot before sorting, conditioning and destination separation
- Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
- Evidence kind: Method formula (method_formula)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Conditioning wastewater (`conditioning_wastewater`)

Record effluent generated by washing or wet cleaning. Identify its measured volume or mass, suspended or removed material where relevant, destination, and onsite or external treatment. Omit when the process is dry and produces no wastewater.

Selected flow: Wastewater from the declared crop-conditioning batch (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Volume / m3 or mass / kg, matching the measured output
Amount rule: Metered or measured wastewater amount by batch and destination
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Technology-specific (technology_specific) Raw activity or stage basis: Per 1 kg of product at the selected gate.
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_conditioning_wastewater
Sources: fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
Range: Provisional broad route screening estimate; replace with crop-, site-, technology- and gate-specific records before reviewed or active use
- Range role: Default estimate (default_estimate)
- Lower: 0
- Upper: 10
- Unit: m3 wastewater/t conditioned product
- Basis: Broad reasoned estimate for the declared route and selected product gate; it is a screening interval, not a universal permitted value
- Basis kind: Reference flow (reference_flow)
- Evidence kind: Reasoned estimate (reasoned_estimate)
- Sources: mass-balance-identity

Elementary flows

Process: Product Measurement at the Declared Handoff (`declared_reference_handoff`)

This node records the actual product handoff at the existing system boundary for reconciliation and reference-quantity normalization. It adds no physical processing and does not presume drying, cooling, storage, packaging or transport. Each data package declares one actual route, one terminal product state, moisture or dry-matter basis, and gate. Feed only the accepted product delivered by that route at that gate into this node; do not add other routes as extra inputs. Record co-products separately and apply Section 7. Count preceding inputs, losses and emissions once. Normalize using the measured accepted net mass at the handoff; this measurement node changes neither mass, yield nor allocation.

Inputs

Product flows

Actual route product at handoff (`actual_route_product_for_handoff`)

Record the accepted product delivered by the actual terminal route and reconcile it with handoff weighing and lot records.

Selected flow: Crop-specific spice or aromatic product at declared gate (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg
Amount rule: measured accepted net product mass at the actual handoff, normalized to the reference quantity; do not sum preceding-stage quantities, other routes or co-products
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Site-specific (site_specific)
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_declared_reference_handoff
Range: Handoff quantity normalization identity
- Range role: QA guardrail (qa_guardrail)
- Lower: 1
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg/kg net handoff mass of the same state
- Basis: normalization of the measured net mass of the same handoff state; not a physical-operation yield
- Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
- Evidence kind: Method formula (method_formula)
- Sources: declared-handoff-measurement-definition

Waste flows

This measurement node adds no waste inputs.

Elementary flows

This measurement node adds no resource inputs.

Outputs

Product flows

Reference product at declared handoff (`reference_product_at_declared_handoff`)

Selected flow: Crop-specific spice or aromatic product at declared gate (UUID unresolved)
Flow property / unit: Mass / kg
Amount rule: 1 kg
Value mode: Foreground record (foreground_record)
Specificity: Site-specific (site_specific)
Normalization basis: per declared reference flow
Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
Evidence kind: Collected record (collected_record)
Collection protocol: cp_declared_reference_handoff Confirm the product UUID independently for the actual state. Until confirmed, retain unresolved identity instead of inheriting a UUID from a preceding stage or another route.
Range: Handoff quantity normalization identity
- Range role: QA guardrail (qa_guardrail)
- Lower: 1
- Upper: 1
- Unit: kg/kg net handoff mass of the same state
- Basis: normalization of the measured net mass of the same handoff state; not a physical-operation yield
- Basis kind: Process output (process_output)
- Evidence kind: Method formula (method_formula)
- Sources: declared-handoff-measurement-definition

Waste flows

Record actual losses at the operation where they occur; do not duplicate them here.

Elementary flows

Record actual emissions at the operation where they occur; do not duplicate them here.

7. Allocation and Co-product Handling

rule_id	applies_to	rule	source_ids
allocation_subdivision	Shared crop and conditioning processes	Subdivide a shared operation when crop-specific inputs, areas, equipment use, batches or outputs can be directly and reliably measured. Keep each crop, plant organ, grade and handoff identifiable.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
allocation_coproducts	Multiple intended crop products	Identify every intended output and its handoff. After subdivision, use a causal physical relation where it explains the shared burden. If no defensible physical relation exists, document the selected allocation basis and period, with economic allocation or system expansion only when the study goal supports it; disclose the rationale and sensitivity. Residues and waste without an intended product function receive no co-product allocation.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
allocation_productive_periods	Multi-year or perennial crops	Report establishment, non-bearing and productive periods separately. When lifetime attribution is required and subdivision is not possible, attribute establishment burdens across the declared productive-life outputs using recorded or explicitly forecast crop-specific output, and disclose the production-life evidence and sensitivity. Do not assign the same establishment burden again to each productive year.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
allocation_shared_assets	Irrigation, harvest and conditioning infrastructure	Attribute shared machinery, pumps, dryers, storage surfaces and utilities first by metered use or operating time. If unavailable, use a documented physical driver such as throughput or capacity use; use another basis only with justification. Record all consuming processes and periods and prevent duplicate attribution.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
allocation_reject_rework	Rework, downgrade, recovery and discard routes	Trace each rejected lot to rework, recovery, downgrade or discard. Include incremental rework inputs once, count accepted product only at its final handoff, and report saleable downgraded material as a distinct intended output. Do not assign a waste treatment credit without an evidenced treatment or substitution route.	iso-14044-lca-allocation; codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017

rule_id	Applies to	Rule	source_ids
`allocation_residual_precedence`	remaining common burden with no specified primary branch	Resolve any study-specific joint-product instruction in this PCR that has no specified primary branch using this precedence; retain an already explicitly prescribed category-specific primary method. First directly assign separable output-specific activities. For the remaining common burden B, use a physical driver d_i only when measured operation or biological-service records demonstrate the causal consumption represented by that driver. A product being weighable, valuable or lower grade alone is insufficient; do not switch arbitrarily between area, time, mass and revenue. For comparable grades receiving the same common handling, measured processed mass is applicable only with the same service demand, state and moisture basis demonstrated. Share a_i=d_i/sum(d_j); B_i=Ba_i. If no defensible causal physical driver exists for that common operation, use gate- and period-matched economic shares a_i=(q_ip_i)/sum(q_j*p_j), with the complete independently intended output set, compatible quantity/price units, currency, representative prices and values before output-specific downstream processing. Missing price or denominator evidence makes the allocated result incomplete, not a zero-priced product or a single-output system. Report shares summing to one and sensitivity to a material alternative; an alternative is not an interchangeable primary result. Waste, retained residues and internal transfers receive no co-product share, while their attributable production/handling burdens remain with the producing saleable route. Retain unallocated physical quantities and mass balances separately. This branch gives no automatic substitution credit; any separately scoped substitution analysis retains the gross inventory and its actual displaced-function evidence.	`ghg-protocol-product-standard-2011`

8. Foreground Data Collection, Calculation, and Quality Rules

Inventory completeness: conditional named cards are examples of individual exchanges, not an exhaustive recipe or a requirement to use those products. Before completing a foreground package, enumerate every actual planting stock, nutrient, crop-protection formulation, asset material, operating service, carrier, packaging material, waste stream and applicable elementary substance separately, using its physical identity, state, native property/unit, origin or receiving compartment, and measured or method-calculated quantity. Missing identity or quantity remains a completeness gap, never an assumed zero. Preserve the actual lot and phase basis; do not sum intermediate transfers as additional final output or duplicate burdens included in purchased services.

Retain raw site, lot, cycle and stage quantities and denominators in each collection protocol. Reconcile stocks, losses, moisture and co-product attribution first, then normalize: normalized exchange = attributable raw exchange × declared reference quantity / accepted hand-off product quantity on the same boundary and measurement basis. Apply perennial-establishment and shared-operation attribution before this normalization. Never set an internal-transfer quantity equal to the final reference quantity. Per declared reference flow means the amount, unit and product state in section 3; the data package must declare its actual route and gate.

Data Collection Protocols

protocol_id	process_id	flow_role	record_type	raw_fields	collection_method	unit	frequency	temporal_coverage	site_scope	aggregation_rule	quality_evidence
cp_propagation_material	managed_crop_production	propagation_material	supplier, seed, nursery or transfer record	species, plant part, propagation form, variety, quantity, source, date, field, crop period	Reconcile invoices, nursery tickets or internal transfer records to planted area; Raw aggregation and attribution: Sum by species, propagation form, field and period; normalize to selected gate output	kg or declared count	Each planting or replanting event	Establishment and replanting events in scope	Declared field and crop	per declared reference flow	Source documentation, unit check and lot traceability
cp_nutrient_application	managed_crop_production	fertilizer_nutrient_inputs; soil_nitrous_oxide	field application log, invoice, soil test	actual product, mass, nutrient grade, N form, organic/mineral status, application date, field, crop period, soil and climate fields used by selected method	Collect each actual product/formulation separately, retain its own atomic input card, physical product mass, composition, supplier, application event and native unit. Reconcile stocks and actual applications, derive nutrients analytically without duplicate product exchange, and attribute/normalize each supported quantity once through matched accepted final output.	kg product and kg nutrient	Every application; summarize by crop period	All included establishment and productive periods	Declared crop fields and shared application equipment	per declared reference flow	Invoices, application logs, calibration and source method record
cp_crop_protection	managed_crop_production	crop_protection_products	application log and supplier product record	product, active ingredient, amount, treated area, application date, target, crop stage, field, pre-harvest interval where applicable	Reconcile application records and purchased quantities; note unused stock; Raw aggregation and attribution: Allocate actual applied amount to treated area and crop period; do not allocate unused stock as applied	kg product and active ingredient	Every application	All included crop periods	Declared crop fields and crop lot	per declared reference flow	Product label, application log, invoice and operator record
cp_irrigation	managed_crop_production	irrigation_water	meter or water-supplier record	water source, meter start/end, volume or mass, date, field, crop, irrigated area, pumping event	Meter actual externally delivered irrigation product at its defined receiving boundary and preserve source, owner, meter location, period and losses. Do not equate a source-abstraction meter to delivered quantity or deduct internal recirculation/reuse from already measured external delivery. Reconcile source-supply-network losses/returns/stocks separately. Actual owned direct abstraction is a separate compatible elementary resource with local delivery internal to the declared boundary; purchased supply covers upstream abstraction once. Normalize attributable native quantities once to matched accepted output.	m3 preferred; verified native unit permitted	Each irrigation event or billing period	Each crop year and productive period	Declared crop field and water source	per declared reference flow	Meter calibration, invoice, water-source record and period reconciliation
cp_crop_energy	managed_crop_production	crop_production_energy	meter, fuel receipt and equipment log	carrier, amount, unit, equipment, operation, field, date, shared use, fuel quality or calorific value when converted	Reconcile fuel/electricity records and allocate shared use by measured operation; Raw aggregation and attribution: Aggregate by actual process and carrier; normalize using crop-period output	Carrier-native unit; kWh-equivalent only with documented conversion	Each operation or billing period	Each crop year and productive period	Declared crop site and equipment	per declared reference flow	Meter or invoice, equipment log and conversion evidence
cp_area_and_land_history	managed_crop_production	crop_land_occupation; crop_land_transformation	field register, map, lease, land history or geospatial record	field boundary, crop area, land-cover class, occupation dates, conversion date and prior/final cover	Reconcile current field map with dated land-history evidence; Raw aggregation and attribution: Calculate area-time by period; report transformation separately from occupation	ha, ha·year, date	Each crop period and each land change	Full declared crop period and any conversion in scope	Declared crop field	per declared reference flow	Geospatial or land register, dated records and area reconciliation
cp_harvest_batch	managed_crop_production; harvest_capture	harvest_ready_crop_material; harvest_ready_batch_input; harvested_target_product	crop lot, harvest ticket and scale record	species, plant organ, field, crop period, harvest date, gross/net/tare mass, moisture, quality state, transfer destination	Weigh or sample each lot using identified calibrated equipment; match inter-process lot id; Raw aggregation and attribution: Reconcile production output, harvest input and harvested output without duplicate final output	kg and moisture basis	Each harvest lot	Each harvest date and crop period	Declared field and receiving process	per declared reference flow	Calibrated scale, lot identity, moisture measurement and signed handoff
cp_field_residues	managed_crop_production; harvest_capture	removed_crop_biomass; production_loss_residue; crop_residue_to_soil	field inspection, sample and residue disposition record	plant part, residue type, wet/dry mass, field, crop period, retained/removed/sold/discarded destination	Measure representative residue or disposal lots and document sampling method; Raw aggregation and attribution: Partition the measured biomass among retained soil residue, intended output and discard; no duplicate destinations	kg dry matter preferred	Each crop period and material-disposition event	All included crop periods	Declared field and biomass type	per declared reference flow	Sampling records, dry-matter method and destination evidence
cp_harvest_energy	harvest_capture	harvest_energy	machinery meter, fuel receipt and harvest log	carrier, amount, equipment, operation, field, date, lot, shared use	Reconcile equipment and fuel logs to harvest operation; Raw aggregation and attribution: Aggregate actual energy by harvest lot and normalize to selected gate output	Carrier-native unit	Each harvest operation or billing period	Each crop period	Declared harvest equipment and field	per declared reference flow	Meter/invoice, equipment log and lot cross-reference
cp_grade_and_disposition	harvest_capture; primary_conditioning	lower_grade_product; other_intended_crop_outputs; harvest_discard; conditioned_lower_grade_product; conditioned_coproducts; conditioning_rejects	grade inspection, packing/scale record, sales or disposal record	material identity, grade, mass, moisture, intended use, sale/transfer/discard/rework destination, lot and handoff	Inspect, weigh and record each declared grade and destination; Raw aggregation and attribution: Mutually exclusive partition into intended product, rework, recovery, discard and waste; reconcile to incoming batch other_intended_crop_outputs_specific_output: Preserve every actual intended output previously collected under other_intended_crop_outputs, including products not represented by the conditional examples. This is a mandatory identification requirement, not an exchange. Before dataset completeness, instantiate a separate physically specific card for each actual product with material/species, physical state, native property/unit, measured quantity, recipient, gate and compatible UUID or exact unresolved identity. Keep original lot/period/throughput and Section 7 allocation duties; count a physical sale once and exclude products already in the selected reference-output denominator. Do not infer a product recipe, separation, numerical range or zero from missing records. conditioned_coproducts_specific_output: Preserve every actual intended output previously collected under conditioned_coproducts, including products not represented by the conditional examples. This is a mandatory identification requirement, not an exchange. Before dataset completeness, instantiate a separate physically specific card for each actual product with material/species, physical state, native property/unit, measured quantity, recipient, gate and compatible UUID or exact unresolved identity. Keep original lot/period/throughput and Section 7 allocation duties; count a physical sale once and exclude products already in the selected reference-output denominator. Do not infer a product recipe, separation, numerical range or zero from missing records.	kg at measured moisture	Each lot and destination event	Each harvest or conditioning lot	Crop species, organ, grade and handoff	per declared reference flow	Grade record, calibrated scale, sales/treatment documentation and lot ledger
cp_conditioning_batch	primary_conditioning	raw_harvest_batch; conditioned_reference_product	receiving, process and output lot records	incoming/output mass, tare, species, organ, crop date, moisture, quality, cleaning/drying route, handoff	Match intake and output lot records and measure moisture at declared points; Raw aggregation and attribution: Reconcile inputs, output grades, rejects, removed water and measured process losses	kg, moisture % wet basis and/or aw	Each incoming and finished lot	Each included first-conditioning operation	Declared first-conditioning site and batch	per declared reference flow	Calibrated scales, sampling plan, moisture meter check and lot balance
cp_conditioning_water	primary_conditioning	conditioning_water	water meter, tank or supplier record	source, volume, meter reading, batch, wash operation, recirculation, reuse, date	Read a calibrated meter or reconcile batch tank volume and supplier record; Raw aggregation and attribution: Sum fresh input separately from recirculated/reused water; normalize to output lot	m3 or verified native unit	Each washing batch	Each included washing operation	Declared conditioning site and crop lot	per declared reference flow	Meter/tank calibration, invoice and batch log
cp_conditioning_energy	primary_conditioning	conditioning_energy	equipment meter, fuel receipt and dryer log	carrier, amount, unit, dryer/cleaner, operation, batch, input/output moisture, operating time, shared use	Reconcile measured energy and operating records to each batch; Raw aggregation and attribution: Aggregate by carrier and operation; allocate shared utilities by metered use or operating time	Carrier-native unit; kWh-equivalent only with documented conversion	Each batch or billing period	Each included conditioning season	Declared first-conditioning facility and equipment	per declared reference flow	Meter/invoice, dryer log, moisture measurements and calibration record
cp_conditioner_transport	primary_conditioning	raw_crop_transport	freight bill, vehicle and route record	crop mass, vehicle, loaded distance, origin, destination, load, date, third-party/own-account status, empty return	Reconcile waybill or vehicle log to weighed crop lot and route distance; Raw aggregation and attribution: Loaded tonne-kilometres by lot; disclose return-trip allocation and exclude own-account fuel when service flow is used	t·km, t and km	Every transfer or shipment	Transfers within the selected boundary	Declared field and first-conditioning site	per declared reference flow	Waybill, vehicle log, route evidence and lot mass
cp_conditioning_wastewater	primary_conditioning	wastewater_treatment_service; conditioning_wastewater	wastewater meter, treatment invoice, discharge or treatment log	wastewater volume/mass, batch, source operation, destination, treatment route, provider and date	Meter, sample or reconcile service provider records to the crop batch; Raw aggregation and attribution: Reconcile generated effluent with onsite reuse, discharge and treatment; avoid duplicate treatment routes	m3 or kg	Each washing batch or billing period	Each included wet-conditioning period	Declared site, discharge point and provider	per declared reference flow	Meter/sample, provider invoice, discharge permit or treatment log
`cp_declared_reference_handoff`	declared_reference_handoff	reference_product_at_declared_handoff	handoff weighing and acceptance records	route, terminal_output_row_id, product_state, gate, lot, net_mass_kg, moisture_basis, acceptance, tare	Use calibrated scales or traceable weighing records; reconcile the actual terminal-operation handoff lot, accepted net mass, product state and moisture; exclude packaging tare and do not sum preceding-stage quantities.	kg	each handoff lot	declared reporting period	declared handoff gate	per declared reference flow	calibration or weighing tickets, acceptance and lot traceability

Calculation Rules

rule_id	Applies to	Formula or rule	Inputs	Output	source_ids
crop_period_normalization	Managed crop production	Normalize each crop-period input by that period's measured net product output at the selected gate. Keep establishment, non-bearing, harvest and productive-period records separately; apply the allocation decision in Section 7 only when combining periods.	Crop-period inputs, field area, product identity, period and net output	Inventory per 1 kg selected reference product plus period-specific source records
nitrogen_soil_n2o	Direct managed-soil N2O	Apply the selected IPCC managed-soils equation and factor to documented N additions and other required activity data. Convert N2O-N to N2O with the method's molecular-mass ratio. Record factor, tier, climate/soil conditions and excluded indirect pathways; do not silently treat an emission factor as a measured flow.	Nutrient composition and application, relevant soil/crop activity data, selected factor	Direct N2O to air per 1 kg selected reference product	ipcc-2019-managed-soils
harvested_lot_balance	Harvest and crop conditioning	Reconcile incoming crop mass to accepted products, lower grades, co-products, waste/rejects, retained or removed residues, removed water and measured unexplained loss on a consistent moisture basis. Investigate any apparent output greater than incoming material; disclose any water or other mass added.	Gross and net batch weights, moisture, grades, residue and destination records	Reconciled product and residue exchanges by lot	mass-balance-identity
road_transport_work	Field-to-conditioner freight	Transport work equals net transported mass in tonnes multiplied by the loaded route distance in kilometres. Apply empty return treatment only as an explicit, evidenced allocation; do not combine a service exchange with the same vehicle's direct fuel record.	Net crop mass, loaded route distance, vehicle and empty-return records	t·km by raw crop lot	iso-14044-lca-allocation
`crop_residue_to_soil_identity_and_fate`	`harvest_capture`	Reconcile crop residue, harvest loss and biomass by measured wet/dry basis and actual fate. Retained or incorporated biomass is an internal residue ledger used to calculate supported decomposition and nutrient pathways, not a purchased resource or an invented elementary biomass exchange. Separately collected material requires its actual product/waste identity and destination; environmental releases require identified substances and receiving compartments. This replaces an ambiguous aggregate exchange, not the collection obligation. Before dataset completeness, create one concrete card per actual exchange, verify a compatible UUID or retain an explicit unresolved identity, and record quantity, unit, stage/period, destination and evidence. Reconstruct the raw attributable numerator from the linked protocol and normalize once to the matched accepted reference output. Missing data is not zero; no range of the former aggregate is an individual-stream default.	`cp_field_residues`	Identity-specific exchanges and reconciled activity records	`codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017`
`chemical_species_mass_accounting`	`elementary_nutrient_emissions`	Final elementary exchanges use the mass of the identified substance and one actual receiving compartment. Keep nutrient/activity ledgers separate: species-specific N2O-N × 44/28 gives N2O, NH3-N × 17/14 gives NH3, nitrate-N × 62/14 gives nitrate, and phosphate-P × 95/31 gives phosphate. If the selected flow is elemental phosphorus instead, report kg P and convert phosphate mass by 31/95 only when that species basis is evidenced. Apply a conversion exactly once only when the method output is on the elemental basis; measured compound mass is not reconverted. Total nutrient losses cannot be assigned to a single species without a supported split, and residual/retained soil nutrient is not an emission. Keep direct/indirect pathway ledgers and avoid repeating a pathway already included in the chosen method or upstream inventory. Factor uncertainty ranges screen factors on their stated basis, not final compound amounts or admissible site emissions. Normalize the attributable compound mass once using the accepted reference quantity and the matched measured output. Unknown activity, identity or compartment remains an evidence gap and blocks a completeness claim.	`cp_nutrient_application`; species-specific activity ledger, method pathway and factor basis, matched accepted output	Identity-specific exchanges and reconciled activity records

Data Quality Requirements

requirement_id	Applies to	Requirement	Evidence
crop_identity_and_gate	Reference product and all process handoffs	Identify one species, plant part, state, grade, site, period and exclusive harvest or first-conditioning gate. Record product UUID only after exact identity and support rows are verified.	Crop/site records, lot identifier, product description and reviewed identity evidence
crop_period_completeness	Annual and perennial production periods	Include establishment, non-bearing and productive periods where relevant; disclose the exact time window, productive-life evidence and any allocation used.	Planting and harvest dates, yield history, field register and calculation record
crop_input_completeness	Production and conditioning inputs	Reconcile planting material, every actual fertilizer/amendment formulation, protection product, water, energy, output, downgrade/reject, residue and emission driver against primary records. Use a separate atomic Product-input card for each actual fertilizer/amendment, preserving product mass, composition and application records; nutrient equivalents are attributes/calculation inputs, not duplicate product quantities. Missing UUID remains explicit until verified.	Invoices, application logs, meters, batch records and concrete flow identity verification
harvest_and_grade_reconciliation	Harvest and conditioning outputs	Account for each declared intended output and handoff. Distinguish accepted output, lower grade, other co-products, rework, retained field residues, waste and unexplained loss; do not count one mass in two destinations.	Lot balance, grade sheets, scale calibration, disposition and sales/treatment records
dried_product_state	Dried reference product	Record product moisture and measurement basis at the selected gate; document the relevant stability/product specification and the sampling method. Do not use drying ranges as mandatory product limits.	Moisture meter/oven results, calibration and the applicable buyer or official specification
shared_asset_and_period_attribution	Shared equipment, fields, dryers and utilities	Identify each consuming process and crop period. Use measured operation or physical use for shared burdens where possible and record the chosen allocation and evidence.	Asset log, meter, operating time, capacity/use record and allocation worksheet
environmental_method_disclosure	Land, soil emissions and waste treatment	Identify land cover, site conditions, emission methods and factors, direct versus indirect pathway, wastewater route and unresolved elementary UUIDs. State exclusions and sensitivity when primary evidence is unavailable.	Land history, activity data, selected IPCC method, method factor citation and treatment evidence
range_replacement	Provisional ranges	Treat reasoned estimates as first-pass screens only. Replace them with crop-, region-, technology- and gate-specific evidence or foreground records before any reviewed/active use. Do not interpret them as universal permitted values.	Source-backed regional evidence or reviewed site records and range QA report

9. Validation Rules

rule_id	applies_to	rule	source_ids
validate_single_crop_lot	Product identity	Reject an inventory that combines multiple species, plant organs, harvest days, fresh/dried states or cultivation systems without separately identified exchanges and attribution.	unsd-cpc-01699; codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
validate_gate_and_reference	Reference product	Require exactly one selected gate and one reference product identity. If the gate is harvest, exclude conditioning; if it is primary-conditioned, treat harvested crop as an intermediate and count only conditioned target product at the reference gate.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
validate_output_destinations	All production, harvest and conditioning outputs	Enumerate all intended outputs and their handoffs. Classify each downgraded lot as a saleable product, rework, recovery, discard or waste; classify field residue by whether it stays in soil, is removed or becomes an intended product.	iso-14044-lca-allocation; codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
validate_crop_periods	Annual, rhizome and perennial routes	Reconcile inputs and outputs by crop period. Check establishment and productive-life attribution for multi-year crops and prevent double attribution of establishment or shared-asset burdens.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
validate_flow_identity_bindings	Product inputs	Verify each actual exchange against its concrete flow UUID, physical state, property and unit; preserve explicit unresolved identities when confirmation is unavailable.
validate_mass_and_moisture	Batch amounts and conditioned output	Check scale tare, mass units, moisture basis, grade quantities, removed water and output mass balance. Any output-to-input ratio above 1 requires an evidenced material addition or moisture/state explanation.	mass-balance-identity; codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
validate_drying_stability	Dried product	Verify moisture or water-activity measurements at declared sampling points and the product's stated acceptance criterion. Codex guidance reports aw below 0.65 as adequate to prevent mycotoxin production in spices; disclose the chosen criterion and applicability rather than treating one moisture value as universal.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
validate_conditioning_routes	Washing, drying and stabilization	Confirm each conditional operation occurred and its inputs, output state and destination are recorded. Omit inactive routes; do not add a wash exchange when no washing took place.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017; fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
validate_n2o_method	Soil nitrous oxide	Require activity data, selected factor and method tier for calculated direct soil N2O. Prevent double counting with upstream product datasets or indirect pathways, and leave the UUID unresolved where no compatible air elementary flow is verified.	ipcc-2019-managed-soils
validate_shared_assets	Shared equipment and facilities	Check that each shared pump, dryer, machine, field or utility burden is allocated once to its actual consuming processes and periods.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
validate_range_status	Candidate amount ranges	Check every range against its amount rule, unit, denominator and route condition. Treat reasoned estimates as replaceable screening values; require evidence-backed and crop-specific ranges before reviewed/active use when a broad estimate is not suitable.

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System boundary rules · 6

Rule ID	Applies to	Rule	Source IDs
`crop_route_start`	Crop establishment and management	Include crop establishment, productive management and field occupation for the declared crop periods. Include prior conversion only when it occurred within the selected accounting period or is explicitly attributed under the study goal; report the land history either way.	ipcc-2019-managed-soils
`harvest_gate`	Harvest and first handoff	Treat harvest as a distinct responsibility between managed plant growth and crop conditioning. Record the crop material collected, its state and handoff, plus incidental loss and non-target biomass by actual destination.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017, fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
`conditioning_gate`	First primary conditioning	Include only the operations performed before the selected first conditioning handoff. Washing is conditional on the actual route; do not add a wash step where the crop or contamination protocol does not require it. Drying and any stabilization are route-specific and require measured inputs and product-state checks.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017, fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
`gate_exclusivity`	Reference product	A dataset shall select the harvest gate or the first primary-conditioning gate. When conditioning is included, the harvested crop is an internal intermediate and shall not be counted again as the reference product.
`route_alternatives`	Crop and conditioning technology	Declare the selected crop life-history and technology route. Rainfed and irrigated cultivation, manual and mechanized harvest, and ambient/solar and mechanical drying are route alternatives; report observed coexistence where it occurs and never average distinct crop species or product states into one inventory.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017, fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
`process_handoffs`	Crop, harvest and conditioning nodes	Identify the input material state, output state, destination and responsible site for each process. Use measured lot transfer records to connect nodes and reconcile input, product, residue, reject and moisture changes.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017

Allocation rules · 6

Rule ID	Applies to	Rule	Source IDs
`allocation_subdivision`	Shared crop and conditioning processes	Subdivide a shared operation when crop-specific inputs, areas, equipment use, batches or outputs can be directly and reliably measured. Keep each crop, plant organ, grade and handoff identifiable.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
`allocation_coproducts`	Multiple intended crop products	Identify every intended output and its handoff. After subdivision, use a causal physical relation where it explains the shared burden. If no defensible physical relation exists, document the selected allocation basis and period, with economic allocation or system expansion only when the study goal supports it; disclose the rationale and sensitivity. Residues and waste without an intended product function receive no co-product allocation.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
`allocation_productive_periods`	Multi-year or perennial crops	Report establishment, non-bearing and productive periods separately. When lifetime attribution is required and subdivision is not possible, attribute establishment burdens across the declared productive-life outputs using recorded or explicitly forecast crop-specific output, and disclose the production-life evidence and sensitivity. Do not assign the same establishment burden again to each productive year.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
`allocation_shared_assets`	Irrigation, harvest and conditioning infrastructure	Attribute shared machinery, pumps, dryers, storage surfaces and utilities first by metered use or operating time. If unavailable, use a documented physical driver such as throughput or capacity use; use another basis only with justification. Record all consuming processes and periods and prevent duplicate attribution.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
`allocation_reject_rework`	Rework, downgrade, recovery and discard routes	Trace each rejected lot to rework, recovery, downgrade or discard. Include incremental rework inputs once, count accepted product only at its final handoff, and report saleable downgraded material as a distinct intended output. Do not assign a waste treatment credit without an evidenced treatment or substitution route.	iso-14044-lca-allocation, codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
`allocation_residual_precedence`	remaining common burden with no specified primary branch	Resolve any study-specific joint-product instruction in this PCR that has no specified primary branch using this precedence; retain an already explicitly prescribed category-specific primary method. First directly assign separable output-specific activities. For the remaining common burden B, use a physical driver d_i only when measured operation or biological-service records demonstrate the causal consumption represented by that driver. A product being weighable, valuable or lower grade alone is insufficient; do not switch arbitrarily between area, time, mass and revenue. For comparable grades receiving the same common handling, measured processed mass is applicable only with the same service demand, state and moisture basis demonstrated. Share a_i=d_i/sum(d_j); B_i=Ba_i. If no defensible causal physical driver exists for that common operation, use gate- and period-matched economic shares a_i=(q_ip_i)/sum(q_j*p_j), with the complete independently intended output set, compatible quantity/price units, currency, representative prices and values before output-specific downstream processing. Missing price or denominator evidence makes the allocated result incomplete, not a zero-priced product or a single-output system. Report shares summing to one and sensitivity to a material alternative; an alternative is not an interchangeable primary result. Waste, retained residues and internal transfers receive no co-product share, while their attributable production/handling burdens remain with the producing saleable route. Retain unallocated physical quantities and mass balances separately. This branch gives no automatic substitution credit; any separately scoped substitution analysis retains the gross inventory and its actual displaced-function evidence.	ghg-protocol-product-standard-2011

Validation rules · 11

Rule ID	Applies to	Rule	Source IDs
`validate_single_crop_lot`	Product identity	Reject an inventory that combines multiple species, plant organs, harvest days, fresh/dried states or cultivation systems without separately identified exchanges and attribution.	unsd-cpc-01699, codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
`validate_gate_and_reference`	Reference product	Require exactly one selected gate and one reference product identity. If the gate is harvest, exclude conditioning; if it is primary-conditioned, treat harvested crop as an intermediate and count only conditioned target product at the reference gate.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
`validate_output_destinations`	All production, harvest and conditioning outputs	Enumerate all intended outputs and their handoffs. Classify each downgraded lot as a saleable product, rework, recovery, discard or waste; classify field residue by whether it stays in soil, is removed or becomes an intended product.	iso-14044-lca-allocation, codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
`validate_crop_periods`	Annual, rhizome and perennial routes	Reconcile inputs and outputs by crop period. Check establishment and productive-life attribution for multi-year crops and prevent double attribution of establishment or shared-asset burdens.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
`validate_flow_identity_bindings`	Product inputs	Verify each actual exchange against its concrete flow UUID, physical state, property and unit; preserve explicit unresolved identities when confirmation is unavailable.
`validate_mass_and_moisture`	Batch amounts and conditioned output	Check scale tare, mass units, moisture basis, grade quantities, removed water and output mass balance. Any output-to-input ratio above 1 requires an evidenced material addition or moisture/state explanation.	mass-balance-identity, codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
`validate_drying_stability`	Dried product	Verify moisture or water-activity measurements at declared sampling points and the product's stated acceptance criterion. Codex guidance reports aw below 0.65 as adequate to prevent mycotoxin production in spices; disclose the chosen criterion and applicability rather than treating one moisture value as universal.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017
`validate_conditioning_routes`	Washing, drying and stabilization	Confirm each conditional operation occurred and its inputs, output state and destination are recorded. Omit inactive routes; do not add a wash exchange when no washing took place.	codex-spice-mycotoxin-practice-2017, fao-herb-spice-quality-handbook
`validate_n2o_method`	Soil nitrous oxide	Require activity data, selected factor and method tier for calculated direct soil N2O. Prevent double counting with upstream product datasets or indirect pathways, and leave the UUID unresolved where no compatible air elementary flow is verified.	ipcc-2019-managed-soils
`validate_shared_assets`	Shared equipment and facilities	Check that each shared pump, dryer, machine, field or utility burden is allocated once to its actual consuming processes and periods.	iso-14044-lca-allocation
`validate_range_status`	Candidate amount ranges	Check every range against its amount rule, unit, denominator and route condition. Treat reasoned estimates as replaceable screening values; require evidence-backed and crop-specific ranges before reviewed/active use when a broad estimate is not suitable.

Processes and inputs/outputs · 4

Process ID	Process name	Input flows	Output flows
`managed_crop_production`	Managed crop establishment and production	11	4
`harvest_capture`	Harvest and field capture	3	3
`primary_conditioning`	First primary conditioning and stabilization	6	4
`declared_reference_handoff`	Product Measurement at Declared Handoff	1	1

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Source

1. Scope and Applicability

2. Product Category Identity

3. Reference Flow

4. Measurement and Unit Rules

5. System Boundary

Boundary Abstraction

Boundary Rules

6. Process Inventory Structure

Process Map

Process: Managed crop establishment and production (managed_crop_production)

Inputs

Product flows

Seed or other propagation material (propagation_material)

Fertilizer, urea input (fertilizer_nutrient_inputs)

Fertilizer, monoammonium phosphate input (fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_monoammonium_phosphate)

Fertilizer, potassium chloride input (fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_potassium_chloride)

Cattle manure, as applied input (fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_cattle_manure)

Agricultural limestone input (fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_agricultural_limestone)

Irrigation water, groundwater (irrigation_water)

Electricity, medium voltage input (crop_production_energy)

Diesel fuel input (crop_production_energy_diesel)

Waste flows

Elementary flows

Crop land occupation (crop_land_occupation)

Land transformation (crop_land_transformation)

Outputs

Product flows

Harvest-ready target plant material (harvest_ready_crop_material)

Waste flows

Removed non-target crop biomass (removed_crop_biomass)

Crop-production loss or removed residue (production_loss_residue)

Elementary flows

Direct soil nitrous oxide (soil_nitrous_oxide)

Process: Harvest and field capture (harvest_capture)

Inputs

Product flows

Harvest-ready crop batch (harvest_ready_batch_input)

Electricity, medium voltage input (harvest_energy)

Diesel fuel input (harvest_energy_diesel)

Outputs

Product flows

Primary harvested crop product (harvested_target_product)

Lower-grade saleable crop product (lower_grade_product)

Waste flows

Discarded harvest material (harvest_discard)

Elementary flows

Process: First primary conditioning and stabilization (primary_conditioning)

Inputs

Product flows

Raw harvested crop batch (raw_harvest_batch)

Conditioning wash water (conditioning_water)

Electricity, medium voltage input (conditioning_energy)

Diesel fuel input (conditioning_energy_diesel)

Field-to-conditioner transport service (raw_crop_transport)

External wastewater treatment service (wastewater_treatment_service)

Outputs

Product flows

Primary conditioned crop product (conditioned_reference_product)

Lower-grade conditioned product (conditioned_lower_grade_product)

Waste flows

Conditioning rejects and discarded residues (conditioning_rejects)

Conditioning wastewater (conditioning_wastewater)

Elementary flows

Process: Product Measurement at the Declared Handoff (declared_reference_handoff)

Inputs

Product flows

Actual route product at handoff (actual_route_product_for_handoff)

Waste flows

Elementary flows

Outputs

Product flows

Reference product at declared handoff (reference_product_at_declared_handoff)

Waste flows

Elementary flows

7. Allocation and Co-product Handling

Process: Managed crop establishment and production (`managed_crop_production`)

Seed or other propagation material (`propagation_material`)

Fertilizer, urea input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs`)

Fertilizer, monoammonium phosphate input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_monoammonium_phosphate`)

Fertilizer, potassium chloride input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_potassium_chloride`)

Cattle manure, as applied input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_cattle_manure`)

Agricultural limestone input (`fertilizer_nutrient_inputs_agricultural_limestone`)

Irrigation water, groundwater (`irrigation_water`)

Electricity, medium voltage input (`crop_production_energy`)

Diesel fuel input (`crop_production_energy_diesel`)

Crop land occupation (`crop_land_occupation`)

Land transformation (`crop_land_transformation`)

Harvest-ready target plant material (`harvest_ready_crop_material`)

Removed non-target crop biomass (`removed_crop_biomass`)

Crop-production loss or removed residue (`production_loss_residue`)

Direct soil nitrous oxide (`soil_nitrous_oxide`)

Process: Harvest and field capture (`harvest_capture`)

Harvest-ready crop batch (`harvest_ready_batch_input`)

Electricity, medium voltage input (`harvest_energy`)

Diesel fuel input (`harvest_energy_diesel`)

Primary harvested crop product (`harvested_target_product`)

Lower-grade saleable crop product (`lower_grade_product`)

Discarded harvest material (`harvest_discard`)

Process: First primary conditioning and stabilization (`primary_conditioning`)

Raw harvested crop batch (`raw_harvest_batch`)

Conditioning wash water (`conditioning_water`)

Electricity, medium voltage input (`conditioning_energy`)

Diesel fuel input (`conditioning_energy_diesel`)

Field-to-conditioner transport service (`raw_crop_transport`)

External wastewater treatment service (`wastewater_treatment_service`)

Primary conditioned crop product (`conditioned_reference_product`)

Lower-grade conditioned product (`conditioned_lower_grade_product`)

Conditioning rejects and discarded residues (`conditioning_rejects`)

Conditioning wastewater (`conditioning_wastewater`)

Process: Product Measurement at the Declared Handoff (`declared_reference_handoff`)

Actual route product at handoff (`actual_route_product_for_handoff`)

Reference product at declared handoff (`reference_product_at_declared_handoff`)