Computer Aided Scheduling System for Farm Work Operation

Abstract

This report is concerned with a computer aided system for making decision on an optimum scheduling of farm work operation in an attempt to get the the maximum operable area under the condition of working capacity, working hours.
The computer aided system is structured by using Smalltalk-80, which is an object oriented programming language, in order to give suitability to entire presentation, putting data into a computer, setting parameters and displaying results. Linear Programming is used as a method for getting the result in the system.
The object of this system is to make the total crop production area maximizing and then to show the schedule of farm operation in each stage given by farm work periods. And the process to optimization is subject the cropping pattern including the cultivating ratio of crops, the farm work periods, the workable hours and the working capacity.
Since the process for making the input data fit to Linear Programming is promoted automatically, it doesn't need any knowledge about Linear Programming to use the scheduling system for making decision on farm work operation.