Maya Al-Abdala1*, Afraa Sallowm 2 and Safwan Aboassaf 1
1 General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research (GCSAR), Syria.
2 Department of agricultural economics, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Damascus University, Syria.
(*Corresponding author: May Al-Abdala, Email: Mayaabdala6@gmail.com ).
Received: 11/ 5/ 2024 Accepted: 16/ 9/ 2024
Abstract
The research aims to reach several alternatives of optimal crop structures that achieve minimizing irrigation water consumption, and maximizing the net return from the water unit in Swaida governorate, in the areas of spread of irrigated vegetable cultivation for the 2020 season, within the constraints of available agricultural productive resources. Through the processing and analysis of secondary data, the primary data collected through the field survey form and the formulation of a mathematical linear programming model in which the crop structure was restructured and crop areas and productive resources are redistributed. The results showed that the first alternative achieved an increase of 13.26% over the net return of the irrigation water unit in the actual composition, with a difference of 2.54 million syp. The second alternative achieved savings of 44.86% over the amount of water in the actual structure, so the total water requirement for the proposed structure was 3.25 million m3, compared to 5.9 million m3 of water for the actual structure. The research recommended modifying the crop structure in Swaida to achieve the optimal crop structure that achieves the minimization of irrigation water, and maximizing the net return from the irrigation water unit.
Keywords: Optimal Management, Linear Programming, Minimization, Maximization, Swaida.
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