Rice, wheat, maize, millet, and barley are the five major staple cereal crops in Nepal. However, their yields low, imports needed to meet domestic demand. In this study, we quantify gap between current potentially attainable Nepal, estimate how much additional fertilizer irrigation required close gap, assess if self-sufficiency can thus be achieved. For this, first test ability of crop model EP...

This paper focuses on the yield prospects of wheat, rice and maize since these cereals dominate human diet, and since continued yield growth is considered the major route to meeting future global demand for food, feed and fuel. We define for a region farm yield (FY), attainable yield (AY, as reached with the best technology and prudent economics), and potential yield (PY, yield with the best va...

To assess the scope for enhancing productivity of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.), the CROPGRO-Soybean model was calibrated and validated for the diverse soybean-growing environments of central and peninsular India. The validated model was used to estimate potential yields (water non-limiting and water limiting) and yield gaps of soybean for 21 locations representing major soybean regions of Ind...

Laurent & Poljak introduced a class of valid inequalities for the max-cut problem, called gap inequalities, which include many other known inequalities as special cases. The gap inequalities have received little attention and are poorly understood. This paper presents the first ever computational results. In particular, we start presenting a cuttingplane scheme based on an effective heuristic s...

Laurent & Poljak introduced a class of valid inequalities for the max-cut problem, called gap inequalities, which include many other known inequalities as special cases. The gap inequalities have received little attention and are poorly understood. This paper presents the first ever computational results. In particular, we describe heuristic separation algorithms for gap inequalities and their ...