Fuzzy multiobjective and linear programming based management models for optimal land–water–crop system planning

Fuzzy multiobjective and linear programming based management models for optimal land–water–crop system planning

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Article ID: iaor20071989
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 20
Issue: 6
Start Page Number: 931
End Page Number: 948
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Journal: Water Resources Management
Authors: , ,
Keywords: developing countries, programming: linear
Abstract:

In this article, linear programming and fuzzy optimization models are developed for planning and management of available land–water–crop system of Mahanadi-Kathajodi delta in eastern India. The models are used to optimize the economic return, production and labour utilization, and to search the related cropping patterns and intensities with specified land, water, fertilizer and labour availability, and water use pattern constraints. Due to extreme backwardness of the study area, it has been decided to keep all the three objectives of the linear programming models at the same priority level to obtain the compromised solution in a fuzzy environment that incorporates the imprecision in fuzzy goals and fuzzy constraints. These non-structural models facilitate the conjunctive use of available surface water and groundwater resources. A comparative evaluation along with the benefit–cost ratios of the existing and proposed farming systems is also presented.

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