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SPANISH JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
INST NACIONAL INVESTIGACION & TECNOLOGIA AGRARIA & ALIMENTARIA-INIA-CSIC
DOI: 10.5424/sjar/2016144-8699
Keywords
analytical hierarchical process; multi-criteria decision making; fuzzy analytical hierarchical processing; biotic and abiotic constraints; rice production practices; Oryza sativa
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Due to overwhelming complex and vague nature of interactions between multiple factors describing agriculture, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are widely used from farm to fork to facilitate systematic and transparent decision support, figure out multiple decision outcomes and equip decision maker with confident decision choices in order to choose best alternative. This research proposes a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) based decision support to evaluate and prioritize important factors of rice production practices and constraints under temperate climatic conditions and provides estimate of weightings, which measure relative importance of critical factors of the crop under biotic, abiotic, socio-economic and technological settings. The results envisage that flood, drought, water logging, late sali, temperature and rainfall are important constraints. However, regulating transplantation time; maintaining planting density; providing training to the educated farmers; introducing high productive varieties like Shalimar Rice-1 and Jhelum; better management of nutrients, weeds and diseases are most important opportunities to enhance rice production in the region. Therefore, the proposed system supplements farmers with precise decision information about important rice production practices, opportunities and constraints.
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