Bihar has a total geographical area of 93.60 lakh hectares on which it houses population 82.9 million, thereby generating density 880 persons per sq. km (Census 2001). Gross sown in the State is 79.46 hectares, while net 56.03 hectares. There are around 1.04 crore landholdings 83 percent marginal holdings size less than 1 hectare (Table 1). With 90 living rural areas, agriculture as primary fee...

Yield gap analyses of individual crops have been used to estimate opportunities for increasing crop production at local to global scales, thus providing information crucial to food security. However, increases in crop production can also be achieved by improving cropping system yield through modification of spatial and temporal arrangement of individual crops. In this paper we define the croppi...

abstract the present study was carried out for developing and evaluating of the optimization model of cropping pattern in irrigation networks using analytical hierarchy process (ahp). the model was programmed into two sub-models. the objective of the first sub-model was ranking of crop appropriately, and the objective of the second sub-model was ranking of cropping area of each crop. ten criter...

In the present study an evolutionary based optimization algorithm Differential Evolution (DE) is applied to a case study of Bisalpur project, Rajasthan, India. The objective of DE based planning model is to determine suitable cropping pattern which yields maximum net benefits. Ten different strategies (variations) of DE are analyzed with various population sizes, crossover constants and weighti...