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Assessment of Optimal Yield and Crop Plan for a River Basin

Aruna Thube
Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering Pune, Shivajinagar, Pune-411005, Maharashtra, India.

Abstract—This paper presents application of Modified Integrated Yield Model (MIYM) for river basin development, which is an implicit stochastic screening model based on linear programming to assess optimal annual yields from reservoirs based on pre-specified annual release reliabilities with site specific yield failure years and failure fraction factors and also simultaneously optimizing the cropping pattern. The model is applied to Vedavathi basin of Krishna River in Andhra Pradesh, India. The study result showed that MIYM as a screening model performs well in achieving its intended purpose of determining yields from a system of reservoirs and barrages with optimal crop plan.

Index Terms—Yield model, Failure fraction, Optimal yield

Cite: Aruna Thube, "Assessment of Optimal Yield and Crop Plan for a River Basin," International Journal of Structural and Civil Engineering Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 131-139, February 2013.