An Experimental Factor Analysis Study Using SAW and TOPSIS to Select and Rank Organic Agriculture Cities in Turkey

International Journal on Food System Dynamics Pub Date : 2021-05-18 DOI:10.18461/IJFSD.V12I2.81

Murat Çal, R. Sahin

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Abstract

The agriculture sector supports Turkey’s GDP portfolio economically and helps establish a sustainable labor force. Turkey has certain competitive advantages in terms of the organic production of agricultural goods like figs and hazelnuts. We conduct a factor analysis using Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) methods combined with a 3-level set (export volume, export value, and adequacy rate) to rank 32 candidate cities of Turkey where organic agriculture activities should be given more emphasis to support overall production and export rates. 18 different sets of importance values were used for this purpose and their combinatorial effects on candidate cities were analyzed. The factor analysis results show that the cities Izmir, Aydin, Adiyaman, Gaziantep, Agri, Mus, and Van have the highest potentials among all Turkish cities in both methods, while Sanliurfa also shows high potential for organic agriculture in the TOPSIS method.

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SAW和TOPSIS法在土耳其有机农业城市选择和排名中的实验因子分析研究

农业部门在经济上支持土耳其的GDP投资组合，并有助于建立可持续的劳动力队伍。土耳其在有机生产无花果和榛子等农产品方面具有一定的竞争优势。我们使用简单相加加权（SAW）和理想解相似偏好排序技术（TOPSIS）方法，结合三级集合（出口量、出口价值和充足率），对土耳其32个应更加重视有机农业活动以支持整体生产和出口率的候选城市进行了因子分析。为此，使用了18组不同的重要性值，并分析了它们对候选城市的组合影响。因子分析结果表明，在两种方法中，伊兹密尔、艾丁、阿迪亚曼、加济安泰普、阿格里、穆斯和凡等城市的有机农业潜力最高，而在TOPSIS方法中，桑柳尔法也显示出有机农业的高潜力。

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International Journal on Food System Dynamics Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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