Application of Sen's Multi-Objective Programming (MOP) for Vegetable Based Cropping Plan in Eastern Uttar Pradesh

Indian agriculture is now dominated by horticultural production. Total horticultural production of 315 million tons is greater than 297 million tons of food grain production. Indian farmers are producing 190 million tons of vegetables and small and marginal farmers are the main contributors to vegetable production. For exploring the possibilities of increasing income and employment with lesser irrigation, the optimization of limited resources for developing a suitable cropping plan seems to be essential. Optimization techniques like applied math, wise choice of best allocation of land and water to attain maximum returns by increasing production per unit area, and per drop of water (Gadge et al., 2014). It is a technique of high importance with profit-maximizing and costminimization through a combination of farm enterprises that is possible to carry out with the given farm constraints. The optimized farm plan may assist the farmer to improve efficiency in a dynamic economic and technological atmosphere along with increasing food International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 10 Number 01 (2021) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com