A goal programming model for planning the development of newly reclaimed lands

Abstract A large-scale, multi-objective single-time-period model for planning the development of reclaimed lands is proposed. The period considered is a typical year at the most developed stage of the agricultural complex. Given specific development goals and a set of resource constraints, the model determines the optimal land allocation for the integrated agricultural development of a region, including agricultural and livestock production as well as agriindustries. Linear Goal Programming is the multi-objective technique used for model formulation. The technique proposed for the solution is a multi-phase simplex algorithm which is based on the IBM-MPSX/370.