Multi-Criteria Assessment of Vegetable Production Business Alternatives

• Authors: Silvo Pozderec , Martina Bavec , Črtomir Rozman , Jožef Vinčec , Karmen Pažek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Purpose: Organic and integrated production of vegetables are the two most common production systems in Slovenia. The study analyzed two production systems with different cultures as alternatives with purpose to find the most appropriate variants. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study based on the development and integration of developed specific technological- economic simulation models for the production of vegetables (salad, growing peppers, salad cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, round and cherry tomato) in greenhouse and multi-criteria decision analysis. The methodology of the study based on the DEX methodology and the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) of organic (ECO) and integrated production (IP) in greenhouse. Results: The evaluation results show that both cultivation methods of commercially attractive vegetables in greenhouse are variable. In the case of integrated production, the assessment of multi-criteria decision analysis EC and DEXi showed that salad (Donertie F1) proved to be the best possible alternative. In the case of organic production, the multi-criteria analysis assessment of pickling cucumbers (Harmony F1) is the best possible business alternative. Conclusion: For the further production planning process by decision maker is the ranking with Expert Choice (EC) more useful and precise, while the DEX evaluations are more descriptive.

Keywords

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simulation model; multi-criteria analysis; vegetable; greenhouse

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 203-213

Dates

published

2015-08-01

received

2015-03-15

revised

2015-05-27

accepted

2015-06-21

online

2015-08-14

Contributors

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Silvo Pozderec

• University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pivola 10, 2311 Hoče, Slovenia

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Martina Bavec

• University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pivola 10, 2311 Hoče, Slovenia

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Črtomir Rozman

• University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pivola 10, 2311 Hoče, Slovenia

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Jožef Vinčec

• University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pivola 10, 2311 Hoče, Slovenia

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Karmen Pažek

• University of Maribor, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Pivola 10, 2311 Hoče, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/orga-2015-0015