Economic Analysis of Agro-product: a Supply Chain Management in Rural communities

Green supply chain management (GSCM) has been identified as a strategy for addressing food security. Hence, this research aimed to implement a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework for the Agro-products subset of GSCM. This research objective addresses the issue of evaluating economic criteria parameters for green supply chain management for an Agro-business, through a developed multi-criteria decision framework. This research considered five Agro-products (poultry products, meat, fruits, fish, and vegetables) in the three major selected markets (Mowe-Ibafo, Arigbajo-Ifo, and Agbara-Lusada) in Ogun state, Nigeria. The economic parameters that affect Agro-products management was evaluated using a fuzzy entropy method (FEM). VIKOR model was introduced to assess the criteria's importance. VIKOR outputs indicated that meat and vegetable products are most important based on the fact that experts' opinions are the same in cases I, II, and III. Poultry products and meat are the second most important as the expert's views are the same in cases II, III, and I, II respectively. However, fish product was the least important as there was no agreement between the expert's opinions in the three cases. The information from this study is important for stakeholders in MCDM for Agro-products.