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IIMB Management Review

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In India, agriculture remains the dominant sector of economic activity with 74 percent work force depending on it. But the share of income from agriculture sector is less than the employment in it. Also the menace of unemployment and food requirement is increasing with growing population. Hence , there is a great need for increasing production and net profit levels on one hand and employment generation on the other. Irrigation planning plays an .mportant role in increasing agricultural production, net benefit, employment generation etc. as only 32 percent of the total cultivated area is irrigated in our country. Irrigation Planning for better water management may have numerous conflicting objectives and optimal plans may differ depending upon the importance given to each one. For a developing country like ours, maximizing food production and labour employment may be more important than just maximizing cereal production. Thus the farmer’s goal of maximizing only the cereals production may conflict with the government’s policy of maximizing food production and labour employment. Therefore an effort has been made in this study to apply fuzzy linear programming technique for obtaining an efficient compromising solution for a multi-objective agricultural planning problem, wherein the ease with which a solution that satisfies all the conflicting objectives and the degree to which the decision maker is satisfied comes out in the process, is demonstrated.

Publication Date

6-1-1990

First Page

47

Last Page

64

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