Differential evolution algorithm for solving multi-objective crop planning model

Josiah Adeyemo and Fred Otieno

Agricultural Water Management, 2010, vol. 97, issue 6, 848-856

Abstract: This study presents four strategies of a novel evolutionary algorithm, multi-objective differential evolution algorithm (MDEA). The four strategies namely, MDEA1, MDEA2, MDEA3 and MDEA4 are adapted to solve the multi-objective crop planning model with multiple constraints in a farmland in the Vaalharts irrigation scheme (VIS) in South Africa. The three objectives of the model are to minimize the total irrigation water (m2) and to maximize both the total net income in South African Rand (ZAR) from farming and the total agricultural output in tons. The total area of the farm is 771,000m2 and supplied with 704,694m2 of irrigation water annually. Numerical results produce non-dominated solutions which converge to Pareto optimal fronts. MDEA1 and MDEA2 strategies with binomial crossover method are better for solving the crop planning problem presented than MDEA3 and MDEA4 strategies with exponential crossover method. MDEA1 found a solution with the highest total net income of ZAR 1,304,600 with the corresponding total agricultural output, total irrigation water and total planting areas of 316.26tons, 702,000m3 and 725,000m2, respectively. The planting areas for the crops in the solution are 73,463m2 for maize, 551,660m2 for groundnut, 50,000m2 for Lucerne and 50,000m2 for Peacan nut. It can be concluded that MDEA is a good algorithm for solving crop planning problem especially in water deficient areas like South Africa.

Keywords: MDEA; Differential; evolution; Multi-objective; Irrigation; Evolutionary; algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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