Research Article

Application of Multiple Criteria Decision-Making approach for ranking Lentil genotypes

Prit Mondal¹*, Tufleuddin Biswas^{1, 2}, Prity Maji¹ and Anurup Majumder¹

¹Department of Agricultural Statistics, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, P.O. Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal, India

²Department of Agricultural Economics and Statistics, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India

*Corresponding author e-mail: prit2330@gmail.com

(Received: 11/02/2024; Revised: 12/04/2024; Accepted: 05/05/2024; Published: 20/06/2024)

ABSTRACT

The conception of the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach was applied to lentil genotypes under study to rank their performances. The study was conducted in University Research Farm, BCKV, West Bengal, during 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. The identification of 16 cultivars was performed using the above approach based on 7 different growth and yield attributing parameters. The concept of entropy was employed to assign suitable weights to the recorded characters for their relative importance in the assessment and ranking process. Considering 7 parameters (criteria), the variety L1112-7 ranked first. While the variety L1112-16 ranked the last. It was also observed that this approach was very robust as it can accommodate many alternatives for comparison with multiple numbers of characters or Alternatives.

Keywords: MCDM, TOPSIS, Entropy, Lentil