Linear Programming Technique and its’ Application in Minimizing Piggery Feed Meals Formulation in a Piggery Farm in Ghana

Abstract

In this paper, we develop an optimal feed mix formulation model for the piggery farm industry utilizing locally and accessible feed ingredients in other to achieve an optimal productivity in piggery farming in Ghana using information from a typical standard farm to form the Linear Programming model for the feed composition created and parameterized by considering both the decision and constraints variables, to determine the optimal solution. Results from the values measured and post optimality shows that the optimal reduction in the pig’s ration of 8.89% decrease in the pigs feed formulation related to the farm’s existed procedure