Identifying and prioritizing the strategic issues of Iran's food and beverage industry with a fuzzy Delphi approach and providing solutions to solve these issues

one of the important indicators of development and also a basic condition for improving the level of well-being in any society is people's access to all kinds of food and safe water, as far as no country can carry out its development programs without providing safe and accessible food and drink. Follow for different sections of society. Therefore, this research seeks to identify the strategic issues of the food and beverage industry and prioritize them. This research is applied in terms of purpose, descriptive-survey in terms of data collection, and mixed mixed research in terms of research method. To identify strategic issues in Iran's industry, the review of authentic texts and reports and in-depth interviews with experts are used. After collecting information using the open coding method, the collected data were analyzed and strategic statistical issues were prioritized using the fuzzy Delphi approach. The result of the research indicates that the most important strategic issues of the industry are the weakness of the distribution system, the weakness of the banking system in providing facilities, the high rate of inflation, the inappropriate distribution of the establishment of transformation and complementary industries without regard to the potential of the agricultural sector, and the low productivity of human resources .