Affiliations: [a] Department of Mathematics, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
| [b] Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology and Social Sciences, Center of Research Development and Innovation in Psychology, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania
| [c] Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania
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Corresponding author. Benito G. Mng’ong’o, PhD candidate, University of Dar es Salaam, Department of Mathematics. E-mail: dana@xhouse.ro.
Abstract: It is a common practice for organisation to carry out assessment exercises regarding performance of their organisational activities and processes. This paper assesses the market performance of five agro-processed crops at Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) against some criteria. Experts at SAT supplied useful information by responding through a questionnaire. The fuzzy TOPSIS model was applied in the methodology to rank the processed products. For the sake of comparing results, the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) model was also applied to rank the products. It was found that three products maintained their positions in the two models while the other two products (alternatives) exchanged their positions. It was further suggested that more efforts have to go for lower market performing products by looking upon means to improve on their corresponding low weight criteria/sub-criteria.
Keywords: Agro-processing, fuzzy TOPSIS, fuzzy AHP, linguistic variables, fuzzy aggregation, multi-criteria, decision making
