Fuzzy technique to agricultural planning

The paper demonstrates how fuzzy mathematical programming technique can be used to solve a multi-criteria agricultural planning problem. National goals of higher production and maximum labour utilization conflicting with the farmer’s interest of maximizing net-return demand to planning a better solution within the constraints like land, fertiliser, water, labour, crop affinity etc. The present paper focuses a fuzzy mathematical programming approach for solving these multiple, conflicting and non-commensurable criteria taking a case-study in Indian context. An irrigation co-operative’s tube-well command area has been chosen to explain the merits of the technique in achieving multi-pronged (multi-faceted) goals. The results clearly indicate that the unique allocation of land under different crops in different seasons of a year provides a compromise between the farmers’ and the national goals within the constraints.