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Mahalanobis Taguchi system based criteria selection tool for agriculture crops

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Agriculture crop selection cannot be formulated from one criterion but from multiple criteria. A list of criteria for crop selection was identified through literature survey and agricultural experts. The identified criteria were grouped into seven main criteria namely, soil, water, season, input, support, facilities and threats. In this paper, Mahalanobis Taguchi system based tool was developed for identification of useful set of criteria which is a subset of the original criteria, for taking decision on crop selection in a given agriculture land. The combination of Mahalanobis distance and Taguchi method is used for identification of important criteria. Matlab software was used to develop the tool. After entering the values for each main criteria in the tool, it will process the value and identify the useful sub-criteria under each main criteria for selecting the suitable crop in a given agriculture land. Instead of considering all criteria, one can use these useful set of criteria under each main criteria for taking decision on crop selection in agriculture.

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Acknowledgements

This work forms part of the R&D activities of TIFAC-CORE in Automotive Infotronics located at VIT University, Vellore. The authors would like to thank DST, Government of India for providing necessary hardware and software support for completing this work successfully.

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DEEPA, N., GANESAN, K. Mahalanobis Taguchi system based criteria selection tool for agriculture crops. Sādhanā 41, 1407–1414 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-016-0569-5

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