Biotechnological Communication Biosci. Biotech. Res. Comm. 9(4): 783-789 (2016) Design of strategic model of agriculture products of Bijar County by hybrid SWOT-ANP model Fershteh Elyaspour1,2 and Parisa Bahmani3* 1M.S Student, DEP Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran 2EMBA DEP Kermanshah Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran 3PhD Student Kermanshah University Professor E MBA DEP Kermanshah Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran ABSTRACT In this study, strategic model of agricultural products from a section of Bijar County by hybrid SWOT-ANP model has been studied. However, over past years, in spite of efforts for boosting the production, self-reliance, processing and exportation of agricultural products, this section has not still played its real role in the country economy. Managerial weakness in planning and supply chain of agricultural products and intervening of brokers and dealers in this area can be considered as an essential problem in this part of economy, and one should seek an appropriate solution for tackling it. In this paper, ANP method and Super-decision software are used for prioritizations. At the end, through interviewing with 7 experts, pairwise comparisons have been done for 7 clusters and geometrical average of values of comparisons were considered as fi nal score of each one of comparisons. Results showed that making agricultural industry purposeful in fertile regions of the county has been placed at fi rst priority, identifying strategic products and investing on them in second priority, and attracting collaboration of farmers to grow products resistant to water shortage conditions and operationalizing plans related to fostering underground water sources has been placed in third priority. KEY WORDS: STRATEGIC MODEL, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, HYBRID SWOT-ANP MODEL INTRODUCTION general, and agricultural faculties and promotion and study centers in particular. Current trend of universities Agriculture development and in particular focus on and research centers, however, shows that gap between stallholder farmers in rural regions defi nitely should be these sections with agricultural sector not only fails to the greatest mission of academic and research centers in be fi lled, but also one can see this gap is further enlarg- ARTICLE INFORMATION: *Corresponding Author: [email protected] Received 27th Sep, 2016 Accepted after revision 24th Nov, 2016 BBRC Print ISSN: 0974-6455 Online ISSN: 2321-4007 Thomson Reuters ISI ESC and Crossref Indexed Journal NAAS Journal Score 2015: 3.48 Cosmos IF : 4.006 © A Society of Science and Nature Publication, 2016. All rights reserved. Online Contents Available at: http//www.bbrc.in/ 783 Elyaspour and Bahmani ing and this is the worst damage to agriculture. That is in villages whose activity is mostly farming (FAO 1988). to say, although there has been an increase in popula- In this paper, through a full-fl edged approached, fi rstly tion of graduates of agricultural study as well as in set- one reviews factors affecting the design of strategic ting forth scientifi c papers and knowledge when com- model of agricultural products section. Then, strengths pared to past years, and this trend was featured by steep and weaknesses and threats in agricultural technological acceleration, however, high rate on unemployment of system are examined, and strategies of establishing effi - agricultural context from one side, and ineffi ciency of cient relation between these sections are discussed based agricultural operational section and drastically low pro- on SWOT technic.Considering the studies of researcher, ductivity in this area from other side suggests the lack it has been specifi ed that in all conducted study, there is of fi rm relation and lack of overlapping and synergy no study conducted regarding design of strategic model between activities of scholar section with production for agricultural products section in Kurdistan province. section. Therefore, it is needed to establish a fundamen- Therefore, this paper, with an approach distinctive from tal change in this area. other studies seeks to design a strategic model of agri- In this paper, we intend to examine this problem cultural products section in Bijar County. through a systematic and comprehensive attitude. Sys- tematic attitude suggests that for agricultural develop- PROBLEM STATEMENT ment, improvement of farming products and selecting a suitable pattern for relation between various sections of Agriculture is one of the most important infl uential sec- system, fi rstly it is needed to be aware of status of organ- tors in economy of any country that plays a leading role izations, opportunities and threats and their strengths in political and economic independence. Existence of and weaknesses and take into account many factors and abundant natural resources and special climate position criteria, therefore, presenting a pattern and strategy is changes Iran into a country with four seasons. However, a multi-criteria decision making which should evaluate over past years, in spite of efforts for boosting the pro- many complicated factors (Zack, 1999). Strategic man- ducing, self-reliance, processing and exporting agricul- agement includes decision taking and integrated activi- tural products, yet this sector fails to fulfi ll its role in ties for developing and implementing effective strate- country economy. Managerial weakness in planning and gies, control and evaluating their outcomes. Strategic agricultural products supply chain and intervening of management represents a process through which organ- mediators and dealers in this fi eld can be considered as izations analyze their internal and external environment main problems in this part of economy and for solving and understand it. In addition, they establish their stra- it one should seek an appropriate solution. Rural devel- tegic path; create some strategies which assist them in opment strategies are based on seven determined objec- attaining to their objectives. They put these strategies tives including: agricultural production growth, better into action; all of these measures are an effort for satis- use of rare resources, optimal use of capital, establish- fying stakeholders (Erabi 1995). ing professional opportunities, redistribution of income, Agriculture and production section serve as opera- enhancing life level and involvement of rural population tional section in the forefront of management and in social affairs (Zamanipour, 2008). knowledge transfer process. Success or failure of this Unfortunately, a lot of less developed countries fail section indicates the degree of effi ciency and effective- to pay necessary and suffi cient attention to agricul- ness of agricultural knowledge and technology system tural section for attaining to rapid development and as of a country. Considering the relevance of this section, much as possible they turn toward rapid industrializa- the importance and history and role of agricultural tion. Requirement of industrialization of fundamental development and its bearing on other social indexes sections is justifi able in these countries; however, this are discussed in this paper separately. The origin and point that essential industry can’t be made and devel- basics of economy globalization is defi nitely global oped without basis is less addressed by these countries. trade, meanwhile trading various commercial products In capitalistic developed countries shift from traditional and reviewing the global transactions for farming crops economy to monetary economy was coupled with tech- is one of the major debates of international community, nical development and enhancement of productivity of (Jalaei et al 2015). agricultural sector. Thus, not only a part of agricultural According published statistic of UN, 62 % of world workforce is released and directed toward industry part, population is consisted of rural people and this propor- but also agricultural surplus set the stage for industriali- tion reaches to 76% in Asia and Africa. Furthermore, zation. This change has not taken place in undeveloped in 1972, roughly 700 million people in the world were countries; therefore, modern economy section has been victim of absolute poverty of which 85% lived in rural incorporated in our country without relating to tradi- regions. In Iran also, near 29% of country population live tional economy section. It continued its activity without 784 DESIGN OF STRATEGIC MODEL OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Elyaspour and Bahmani having organic relation with activities of that section. systematic review. Step 2: In the second step, researcher In traditional section that is mostly agricultural, com- fulfi lled some guided interviews for competing informa- paction of population and remoteness from success path tion obtained from studying documents and literature caused reducing in productivity and by shrinking agri- review for detecting the factors affecting the establish- culture, a lot of workforce are pushed aside of the fi eld ing relation between designs of strategic model with and farming labor changed into latent unemployed with agricultural products section. Step 3: In third step, the no purchase power. Competition of imported industrial researcher tried to fi nd through interviews the strengths products gradually pushed local craftsmen aside and and weaknesses and opportunities and threats based hindered the formation