Programme planning; a practical example.

Authors

  • H.A. Forsyth

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18174/njas.v11i3.17545

Abstract

A method of programme planning, partly similar to the techniques developed by Johnson and Giaever, is used to calculate a near optimum (production) plan for a mixed farm of 12 hectares. The techniques and principles of gross margin analysis and mathematical elements of linear programming are used, and the results are compared with an optimum plan, derived by means of linear programming. This method does not provide an exact picture of enterprise relationships such as can be obtained by linear programming, but is shows which enterprises are blocking the plan and where adjustments can be made. Differences in results between near optimum and optimum plans are so small, that the method may be considered to be accurate enough for use in empirical work. R.v.H. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

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Published

1963-05-01

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (1963)

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Papers

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