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Sustainable planning of agricultural production

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  • Basil Manos
  • Pathena Chatzinikolaou
  • Fedra Kiomourtzi

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This paper presents a model for sustainable planning and optimisation of agricultural production. The model is a mathematical programming model, based on multicriteria techniques, and can be used as a tool for the analysis and simulation of production plans, as well as for the study of impacts of the various policies in agriculture. The model can achieve the optimum production plan of an agricultural region combining in one utility function different conflicting criteria as the maximisation of gross margin and the minimisation of fertilisers used, under a set of constraints for land, labour, available capital, common agricultural policy, etc. The proposed model was applied to the four prefectures of the region of Thessaly, in central Greece. The data needed resulted from the research project entitled 'Sustainable management of soil-water sources of Thessaly aiming at the optimum agricultural production (SMaRT)' funded by EEA grants. In all prefectures, the optimum production plan presents greater gross return, less fertilisers used, and less irrigated water used than the existent production plan.

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  • Basil Manos & Pathena Chatzinikolaou & Fedra Kiomourtzi, 2015. "Sustainable planning of agricultural production," International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 9(1), pages 65-80.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbire:v:9:y:2015:i:1:p:65-80
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    1. Louhichi, Kamel & Ciaian, Pavel & Espinosa, Maria & Colen, Liesbeth & Perni, Angel & Gomez y Paloma, Sergio, 2015. "EU-wide individual Farm Model for CAP Analysis (IFM-CAP): Application to Crop Diversification Policy," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 212155, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Jorge L. García-Alcaraz & Aidé A. Maldonado-Macías & Juan L. Hernández-Arellano & Julio Blanco-Fernández & Emilio Jiménez-Macías & Juan C. Sáenz-Díez Muro, 2016. "Agricultural Tractor Selection: A Hybrid and Multi-Attribute Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-16, February.
    3. Emmanouil Tziolas & Basil Manos & Thomas Bournaris, 2017. "Planning of agro-energy districts for optimum farm income and biomass energy from crops residues," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 535-546, July.
    4. Louhichi, Kamel & Ciaian, Pavel & Espinosa, Maria & Colen, Liesbeth & Perni, Angel & Gomez y Paloma, Sergio, 2015. "Farm-level economic impacts of EU-CAP greening measures," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205309, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    5. Jadwiga Zarod, 2020. "Agricultural Production Planning Using a Multicriteria Optimization Model," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(4), pages 481-490.
    6. Zaród, Jadwiga, 2016. "Sustainable Development Of The Farms In Poland," Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland, vol. 41(3).

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