CONCLUSION
In the decisions under uncertainty individual decision makers have to choose one of presumed
business alternatives with the extended information about their profitability, outcomes, costs, financial
results, but in the absence of any information about the probabilities of the various states of nature.
The paper presented a decision making process under uncertainty in agriculture. The classical criterion
of Wald’s, Hurwicz’s, Maximax, Savage’s and Laplace’s are assessed and compared in the case study
of pumpkin oil production and selling of pumpkin oil. The assessment was made on the basis of
financial results for individual business alternative evaluation. The results show that alternative 1 is
recommended, where the farmer should prefer the pumpkin oil production on 5 ha arable land and the
total oil production should be sold. We believe that there is a need to place more emphasis on
determining the uncertainty in agriculture, especially in food production and food processing.
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