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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2026

A crop recommendation using improved expert-guided constraint aware differential evolution and CatBoost surrogate learning.

Pavithra Mahesh, Rajkumar Soundrapandiyan

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Pavithra MaheshSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Rajkumar SoundrapandiyanSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Abstract

Planning for sustainable crops, among other things, depends on smart decision-support systems capable of managing multi-criteria interactions and different environmental conditions. This study presents a multi-criterion, scenario-aware crop recommendation system developed by coupling Improved ECA-DE (Expert-guided Constraint-Aware Differential Evolution) optimization with CatBoost (Categorical Boosting) surrogate learning. The system assesses the suitability of crops using a range of agro-environmental factors, such as soil type, soil pH, temperature, humidity, water requirement, crop duration, and water source under three scenarios: balanced, drought, and short-season conditions. Improved ECA-DE is used for the determination of criterion weights, and the CatBoost model approximates expert-based suitability scores very effectively. The prediction performance of the proposed method was very high, with coefficient of determination (

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CatBoostcrop recommendationdifferential evolutionmulti-criteriaoptimizationscenario awaresurrogate model

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