An order planning based on an estimation of yield rate and demand in a trading market of plant factories vegetables

Abstract

Much emphasis is now being given to research and development of plant factories which daily produce large amount of high quality vegetables under artificially controlled environments. One of the important issues to be considered for the management and the daily operations of the plant factories is to find a set of suitable customers and/or markets to which the daily produced vegetables are sold and delivered. The current wholesale markets of the vegetables are not suitable for trading the high quality vegetables produced by the plant factories, therefore, a new market is required to sell and to buy the products made by the plant factories. A new trading market system is proposed, in previous research, to sell and to buy the vegetables supplied by the plant factories, based on the stock exchange mechanisms. In this research, a method is proposed to generate suitable selling and buying orders based on the yield rate and the demand estimations, aimed at reducing the losses due to unsuitable selling and buying orders in the proposed trading market.