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1Department of Computer Applications, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Abstract:
In the current agricultural scenario, availability of suitable land for cultivation is less and profitable allocation of the land for cultivating crops seems to be a cumbersome task. Crop planning optimization is a major research field in agriculture, in which land optimization is a significant challenge, which falls under the category of combinatorial optimization problems. The main objective of the present research is to maximize the net income from agriculture through optimal land allocation. Bio-inspired algorithms are quite popular in solving combinatorial optimization problems. Social Spider Algorithm (SSA), a new bio-inspired algorithm, is used to solve land optimization problem in this research based on the simulation of cooperative behaviour of social spiders. The agricultural area chosen for case study is the Coimbatore region, located in Tamilnadu state, India and the relevant data for the crops are collected from Tamilnadu Agricultural University Coimbatore, India. The optimal planting area, crop productivity for various land holdings and the water requirements are computed by SSA and the results have shown better directions for agricultural planning to improve the profit with constrained land area and water limitations.
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