Title: A multicriteria approach for assessing agricultural productivity

Authors: Theodore Tarnanidis; Jason Papathanasiou; Maro Vlachopoulou; Basil Manos; Anna Kalioropoulou

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece ' Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece ' Department of Applied Informatics, School of Information Sciences, University of Macedonia, Greece ' Agricultural Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece ' Agricultural Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract: This paper investigates the agricultural productivity in rural areas based on productivity indicators of agricultural resources, like the gross return produced per agricultural land in these areas, by using the decision-making approach PROMETHEE II. This approach was applied for the assessment of productivity and for the ranking of the seven prefectures of the region of Central Macedonia in Northern Greece with data for the period from 2013 to 2014. The results revealed that the prefecture of Pella surpasses in productivity the remaining six, followed by Imathia and Chalkidiki. Finally, the validity of the specific ranking results is discussed and recommendations are given for the improvement of regional performance and productivity.

Keywords: multicriteria analysis; PROMETHEE II; productivity of agricultural resources.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSAMI.2017.090613

International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics, 2017 Vol.3 No.4, pp.314 - 324

Received: 30 Sep 2017
Accepted: 20 Nov 2017
Published online: 23 Mar 2018 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article