A telephonic survey was conducted during May 2020 among 675 farmers across 28 districts of 11 states India to assess farm constraints and income losses lockdown 1.0 2.0. The results indicate that labour availability input accessibility were hurdles, but manageable some extent. However, marketing inflicted 48 19% in total expected perishable non-perishable commodities average loss per household ...

We consider the problem of dynamically scheduling J jobs on N processors for non-preemptive execution where the value of each job (or the reward garnered upon completion) decays over time. All jobs are initially available in a buffer and the distribution of their service times are known. When a processor becomes available, one must determine which free job to schedule so as to maximize the tota...

it is assumed in most of the existing models that the items can be stored for an unlimited time to meet the future’s demand and their quality and quantity does not change during that period. nevertheless there are special kinds of products which deteriorate or become unusable (such as food products, alcohol, medicines, etc.). therefore if the rate of deterioration is significantly high, the imp...