Interactive Fuzzy Multi-objective Programming in Land Re-organisational Planning for Sustainable Rural Development

Sustainability in rural production system can only be achieved if it can suitably satisfy the local requirement as well as the outside demand with the changing time. With the increased pressure from the food sector in a globalised world, the agrarian economy needs to re-organise its cultivable land system to be compatible with new management practices as well as the multiple needs of various stakeholders and the changing resource scenario. An attempt has been made to transform this problem into a multi-objective decisionmaking problem considering various objectives, resource constraints and conditional constraints. An interactive fuzzy multi-objective programming approach has been used for such a purpose taking a case study in Indian context to demonstrate the validity of the method.

Authors:

• Bijaya Krushna Mangaraj
• Deepak Kumar Das

Keywords:

• Land re-organisation
• Crop planning
• Multiobjective Decision-Making
• Fuzzy Goal Programming.

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