| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 熱帶農業研究所 === 89 === Location selection plays an important role in the performance of banana and mango industries since it may significantly improve the level of productivity and costs involved. However, Agriculture is location is typically characterized by multiple and often conflicting factors. Decision makers who rely on traditional operation research models risk ignoring important qualitative factors in their decisions while decision makers who attempt to take into account the qualitative factors must risk using unscientific or ad-hoc methods.
In this study an economic and simple solution, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method, which has qualitative and quantitative advantages, has been used to choose among 4 localities for the best area for mango and banana production in Taiwan. Those areas were Tainan, Pingtung, Kaohsiung and Taitung for mango production. Concerning banana production those areas were the central area (Taichung, Chuanghwa and Nanto), the south central area (Chiai and Tainan), the southern area (Kaohsiung and Pingtung) and the eastern area (Taitung).
We first surveyed Experts and Training Officers of Farmers Associations on mango and banana production, to elicit the factors considered important for both two industries using a qualitative questionnaire. This was followed by another questionnaire to weight the collected data using pair wise comparison. The most important factors cited in the initial survey were climate, technology, soil quality, drainage and labor for mango industry. Concerning banana industry the same factors were also revealed important except that the factor soil infection was taken in consideration instead of the factor technology. The preferred sites were selected based on highest overall composite priority weight. In this case the best site for mango was identified to be Pingtung (0.345) followed by Tainan (0.325). The south area (0.318) was identified to be most suitable for banana production.
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