Determination of optimum crop mix for crop cultivation in Bangladesh

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 621-632

  Sarker, Ruhul A ^a   Talukdar, Saifullah ^b   Anwarul Haque, A F M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b Bangladesh Institute of Technology   (Bangladesh)

^c BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Crop planning; Linear programming; Optimum crop mix

Indexed keywords

CROPS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CROP PLANNING; OPTIMUM CROP MIX;

CULTIVATION;

CROP PLANNING; LAND USE; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 0031252193     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0307-904X(97)00083-8     Document Type: Article

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