Advances in Food Science and Technology

Advances in Food Science and Technology ISSN: 6732-4215 Vol. 7 (4), pp. 001-007, April, 2019. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

A mathematical programming approach to crop mix problem

Nordin Hj. Mohamad¹* and Fatimah Said²

¹Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

²Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Accepted 11 January, 2019

Abstract

Problems normally faced by farmers include what to plant, how much to plant and when to plant. In this study, a linear programming crop mix model for a finite-time planning horizon was proposed. Given limited available resources such as budget and land acreage, the crop-mix planning model was formulated and transformed into a multi-period linear programming problem. The objective was the maximization of the total returns at the end of the planning horizon. The model was applied to selected single-harvest crops and solved by LINDO, a linear programming package. The results were analyzed and discussed.

Key words: Crop mix, single-harvest, linear programming.