Comparative Analysis of Fuzzy Critical Path Method in Agriculture Project Management

10.6186/IJIMS.202103_32(1).0001

M. Revathi；M. Valliathal

Project management ； fuzzy networking problem ； fuzzy number ； fuzzy critical path method ； agriculture project

International Journal of Information and Management Sciences

32卷1期（2021 / 03 / 01）

1 - 20

英文

Agriculture is considered as a system that supplies valuable product and indefinite yields. It is essential to choose a suitable technique to maximize the yield and minimize losses in harvesting. Project management has techniques to assign activities that facilitate agriculture to standardize the quality, reduce expenses, develops the effectiveness and completes the project without delay. In this paper, an agriculture project has been constructed to minimize the cost of the project with the help of Fuzzy Critical Path Method (FCPM). Fuzzy numbers are more effective to deal with uncertainty which arises in the field of agriculture. Activities affecting the growth of saplings are identified, and a project network is drawn. The cost and duration of each activity is obtained from the observation. The expected duration for the completion of the project, total cost and the critical path is determined using a fuzzy network with generalized Trapezoidal fuzzy numbers, Heptagonal fuzzy number and Hendecagonal fuzzy number. The comparative analysis is done for a significant result of the fuzzy networking problem in agriculture project management.

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