Determination of optimum crop mix for crop cultivation in Kerala homesteads

Abstract

Homestead farming has been the backbone agricultural economy of Kerala but the productivity of the homesteads in Kerala has yet to reach an acceptable level. In this paper the possibility of increasing the contribution of this sector through proper crop planning is sought. The optimum model was developed by using linear programming (LP) technique. The constraints included in the analysis were total area, intercropped area, investment amount and population of each enterprise. The optimum model reveal the scope of 22.83 per cent enhancement in net return as compared to net return from the existing plan. Sensitivity analysis of the optimum model revealed that further enhancement of net return in The agro-ecological region could be achieved by increasing the cropping intensity in the underutilized intercropped area and changing the binding enterprises.

Potential of mathematical model-based decision making to promote sustainable performance of agriculture in developing countries: A review article

“…Most of the literatures reviewed here are articles that used linear programming decision support systems for crop mix and cropping pattern (65%) while the remaining are articles that employed linear programming to promote the performance of dairy farms, crop-livestock integration, land and water resource use, arable crops and fisheries enterprises, botanical farm, and other forms of land use with the aim of maximizing net income, maximizing gross income, improving food security, and enhancing livelihood performance. Outlined results suggested that using LP as decision making tool in agriculture provides maximum annual return (Sarker et al, 1997;Hassan et al, 2005;Fallah Shamsi, 2010;Mohamad and Said, 2011;Alabdulkader et al, 2012;Felix et al, 2013;Geta et al, 2013;Andreea and Adrian, 2013;Gadge et al, 2014;Mugabe et al, 2014;Buzuzi and Buzuzi, 2018;Muhammed Jaslam et al, 2018).…”

A Review of Applications of Linear Programming to Optimize Agricultural Solutions

“…2. Used to optimize profit, to examine whether or not profit increased after implementing the model [5], [10]. 3.…”