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Evaluation of the Vegetable and Fruit Quality in Different Classes for the Consumer Side: Application of AHP Evaluation Model for the Distribution of Vegetable and Fruit Products in Mie Prefecture.

Accession number;99A0453844

Title;Evaluation of the Vegetable and Fruit Quality in Different Classes for the Consumer Side: Application of AHP Evaluation Model for the Distribution of Vegetable and Fruit Products in Mie Prefecture.

Author; OIZUMI KENGO (Miekenkagakugijutsushinkose) ISHIDA MASAAKI (Mie Univ., Fac. of Bioresour.)

Journal Title;Bull Fac Bioresour Mie Univ

Journal Code:Y0251B

ISSN:0915-0471

VOL.;NO.21;PAGE.1-15(1999)

Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.4, TBL.1, REF.19

Pub. Country;Japan

Language;Japanese

Abstract;In the present study, evaluation of vegetable and fruit quality according to different classes from production to consumption was analyzed numerically by applying the method of analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The results were compared among each other. The quality of strawberries, tomatos, and mandarin oranges produced in Mie prefecture were evaluated at the following five stages, i.e., the researchers of prefectural institute, the production body, the wholesale markets, the volume sellers and the consumer. The valuation patterns of importance were divided into three types roughly, regarding the side to which importance to is attached. Furthermore, the valuation patterns of importance varied largely in the wholesale markets located at the middle of the valuation class arrangement. The valuations by the consumers were most similar to those of the volume sellers, and comparatively close to those of the production body, too. The valuations in the research institute were close to those of the wholesale markets, but far different from those of the consumer. Thus, we suggest the following two points; Firstly, it is important for producing districts to cope with well-balanced correspondence to the valuations between the wholesale markets and the consumer; Secondly, it is necessary to bring the valuations in the research institute closer to those of the production body as much as possible. (author abst.)

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