MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR OPTIMUM ENTERPRISE COMBINATION IN THE HOMESTEADS OF SOUTHERN LATERITE AGRO ECOLOGICAL UNIT
Journal Title: Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 0
Abstract
Farm management is one of the most decisive factors in production and marketing of agricultural crops. In a broad depiction, management is defined as making decision process through which the limited resources are allocated to competent items in such a way that the determined goal can be achieved. Mathematical programming especially linear programming supports farmers for efficient decisions in the field of allocating limited resources to competent activities. This research paper was carried out with the objectives of examining and developing statistical models for homestead farming systems in the southern laterite agro-ecological units (AEU8) of Thiruvananthapuram District and to suggest suitable cropping/farming system models that maximize farm income by the optimal use of available resources. The optimum model worked out for SI (crop only) in AEU8 consisted of binding solution for almost all the enterprises except some enterprises like coconut and banana with 25.30 per cent enhancement in net return as compared to net return from the existing plan. The optimum model for S2 HFS was also similar to that of S1 with non-binding solution for coconut and poultry with 31.30 per cent increase in net return. However, sensitivity analysis of the optimum model revealed that further enhancement of net return could be achieved by increasing the cropping intensity in the underutilized intercropped area and changing the binding enterprises.
Authors and Affiliations
Muhammed Jaslam PK, Brigit Joseph, Vijayaraghava Kumar, Jacob John, Paul Lazarus T
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