Crop Planning in Synchronized Crop-Demand Scenarios: A Biobjective Optimization Formulation

Crop Planning using Stochastic Visual Optimization

As the world population increases and arable land decreases, it becomes vital to improve the productivity of the agricultural land available. Given the weather and soil properties, farmers need to take critical decisions such as which seed variety to plant and in what proportion, in order to maximize productivity. These decisions are irreversible and any unusual behavior of external factors, su...

Crop Planning and Water Management: A Survey

Agricultural systems pose many challenges and problems that can be formulated as optimization problems. Among these major challenges are crop selection and irrigation planning. That is, to decide on the proper set of crops to be cultivated and a proper irrigation scheme. Such decisions are made to achieve a certain objectives that typically include the maximization of net profit and/or the mini...

Crop succession requirements in agricultural production planning

A method is proposed to handle crop succession requirements when determining the cultivated areas of n crops for a planning period of T years. For each year, the decision variables represent the areas where a sequence of m crops is cultivated, m ≥ 1. Here, m + 1 is the length of the longest forbidden sequence of crops not containing any forbidden subsequences. The crop succession constraints ar...

Formulation of Entomopathogenic Nematodes for Crop Pest Control: a Review

Cruz-Martínez H., Ruiz-Vega J., Matadamas-Ortíz P.T., Cortés-Martínez C.I., Rosas-Diaz J. (2017): Formulation of entomopathogenic nematodes for crop pest control: a review. Plant Protect. Sci. The different materials and methods used to develop biopesticides with entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) still limit the quality of the final product, reducing field efficacy and complicating application ...

Crop Revenue and Yield Insurance Demand: A Subjective Probability Approach