The objective of this work was to evaluate the interior point method (central path) (IPM) in the maximization of objective functions associated with the agricultural production and income with water and nitrogen constraints. For this purpose, a procedure to maximize the production and income in relation to water and nitrogen applied to the culture was developed in a bi-dimensional matrix of constraints. The model was characterized and the numerical results are presented for different agricultural crops and scenes. It was concluded that the used methodology was capable of maximizing the productivity, obtaining values similar to the ones published in literature by using separable programming.
nonlinear programming; central path; concavity; response function; optimization
