Integrated optimization of farmland cultivation and fertilizer application: Implications for farm management and food security

• Main Authors: BOYABATLI, Onur, SHAO, Lusheng, ZHOU, Yangfang (Helen)
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Farm planning; agriculture; integrated optimization; fertilizer; yield uncertainty; margin uncertainty; fresh produce; food security; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6620; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7619/viewcontent/boyabatli_shao_zhou_R1_31may2023.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Motivated by the fresh produce industry, this paper studies a farmer's joint cultivation and fertilizer (a representative farm input) application decisions facing uncertainties in crop's open market price, harvesting cost, and farm yield, where yield is stochastically increasing in the fer...