A portfolio theory approach to crop planning under environmental constraints

Marius Rădulescu (), Constanta Rădulescu () and Gheorghiţă Zbăganu ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2014, vol. 219, issue 1, 243-264

Abstract: This paper presents a multiobjective model for crop planning in agriculture. The approach is based on portfolio theory. The model takes into account weather risks, market risks and environmental risks. Input data include historical land productivity data for various crops, soil types and yield response to fertilizer/pesticide application. Several environmental levels for the application of fertilizers/pesticides, and the monetary penalties for overcoming these levels, are also considered. Starting from the multiobjective model we formulate several single objective optimization problems: the minimum environmental risk problem, the maximum expected return problem and the minimum financial risk problem. We prove that the minimum environmental risk problem is equivalent to a mixed integer problem with a linear objective function. Two numerical results for the minimum environmental risk problem are presented. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014

Keywords: Crop planning; Portfolio theory; Multiobjective model; Environmental risk; Environmental level; Mixed integer model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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