Multiobjective and Goal Programming Techniques for Solving Agricultural Planning Problems

This paper presents the results of research undertaken to assess the suitabtlity of multiple cnteria dec1s1on techniques to agricultural planning problems. The conventional mathematical programmmg paradigm as used in the form of linear programming is inadequate to deal with real agncultural planning problems when multiple goals and objectives are important elements of the situation. Goal programming and multiple objective programming techniques offer the most promising prospects of application to these problems; therefore, these programming structures are examined from that pomt of view, and the advantages over conventtonal approaches are examined.