Tob. Sci., 1980, 24-12, p. 40-45, ISSN. 0082-4523
Comparative analysis of selected burley tobacco harvesting strategies
Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky USA; Japan Tobacco and Salt Corp., Oyama-Shi, Tochigi-Ken, Japan
Dynamic programming was used to formulate strategy whereby the optimal number of workers utilized each day during harvesting was specified as a function of climatic and crop variables. Such strategy was analyzed and compared with a more commonly used...