Crop Planning in Sustainable Agriculture: Dynamic Farmland Allocation in the Presence of Crop Rotation Benefits

• Main Authors: BOYABATLI, Onur, NASIRY, Javad, ZHOU, Yangfang (Helen)
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Farm Planning; Crop Rotation; Sustainability; Agriculture; Commodity; Uncertainty; Dynamic Programming; Corn; Soybean; Fallow; Agribusiness; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4935; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5934/viewcontent/boyabatli_nasiry_zhou_MSforthcoming_main.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5934/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/boyabatli_nasiry_zhou_MSforthcoming_OnlineAppendix.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper examines crop planning decision in sustainable agriculture---that is, how to allocate farmland among multiple crops in each growing season when the crops have rotation benefits across growing seasons. We consider a farmer who periodically allocates the farmland between two crops in the pr...