Investment Prioritizing of Food and Agricultural Processing Industries (Case Study: Hamedan County)

This study aims to determine the nature of an applied research and prioritize investment in various projects in the field of agriculture processing industry is in the city of Hamedan. Certainly a priority of investing in industries and purposeful planning to facilitate the development of this industry and will prevent the loss of capital. The present study aimed to prioritize funding for the development of agricultural processing industries using Delphi approach has been done. The population in the city of Hamedan processing industry and research experts gather research data on the person and the field has been made. The questionnaire was designed by the designer and analyst, Delphi Group survey data research through the collection consists of 39 members who are all professionals and experts in the field of agriculture, the processing industry have been preparing. Our findings suggest that all processes in the prioritization of the key priorities have been potato product, which represents the strategic nature of this product because of the large percentage of the population dependent on the potato and farmer living in the city are to this product. According to research, industries such as manufacturing sunflower oil, corn syrup and marmalade fruit alcohol production and taking into account all the variables of lower priority and look less essential.Research Limitation: Evaluation of investment priority industries by using computational methods and recommendations of this study is economic.Practical implications: the standards for the return on investment return on economic capital investment projects in priority. And also giving priority to investment in products, garlic and potato processing industry in the region.Original/Value: This prioritize investment in innovative industries by using the Delphi method and consider the views of experts in the industry the results of which are widely and effectively used by the relevant agencies in the province and even with some results in the country.