Three New Stochastic Local Search Metaheuristics for the Annual Crop Planning Problem Based on a New Irrigation Scheme

Table 5

Statistics for the Best Fitness Values (BFVs), Average Best Fitness Values (ABFVs), and 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI) values.

Methods	BFV (ZAR)	ABFV (ZAR)	95% CI
BPA	295,382,093	287,575,514	ABFV ± 732,543
IBPA	296,166,629	288,864,091	ABFV ± 756,861
LADA	296,241,511	280,062,612	ABFV ± 1,352,737
TS	298,765,873	296,886,105	ABFV ± 185,479
SA	294,824,404	288,363,133	ABFV ± 866,622