Abstract
Recently, the environmental issue caused by logistics of agricultural products has attracted a great deal of attention. In order to solve the problem, much of work focuses on green logistics to decrease environmental pollution. However, the green logistics evaluation system of agricultural products is insufficient. Therefore, establishing a reasonable green logistics evaluation system for agricultural products plays a key role in the development of green agricultural products. In this work, domestic and international environmental factors which affect the development of the green logistics of agricultural products are analyzed based on reduction, reuse, and recycling principle of circular economy. In addition, a series of evaluation indicators for green logistics of agricultural products are developed. A fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method is proposed to make a comprehensive evaluation for green logistics of agricultural products based on evaluation indicators. The method combined analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy theory, where a fuzzy transformation operator is introduced. The proposed method is applied for decision-maker in view of knowledge management. In order to verify the applicability of approach, the approach is applied to green logistics of Shandong agricultural products.
Highlights
With the improvement of living standards in China, there are great changes in many aspects, for instances, material food and consumption structure
This article constructs the evaluation index system of APGL and proposes a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP)
AHP is applied to determine the weights of evaluation indexes, which helps to avoid deviations caused by subjective factors
Summary
With the improvement of living standards in China, there are great changes in many aspects, for instances, material food and consumption structure. The growth momentum of consumer demand is strong, and the development space for logistics of agricultural products is great in China. Bosona and colleagues[16,17,18] put forward to establish the manufacturer cluster belt, which can reduce the waste of resources in transportation and improve the efficiency of green logistics operation. The fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method was used to evaluate the performance of fresh agricultural products. By analyzing the existing investigations, there are fewer evaluation researches of APGL, especially for the evaluation of logistics system in agricultural products area.[26,27,28,29] In this study, we analyzed the domestic and international environmental factors that affect the development of APGL according to the reduction, reuse, and recycling (3R) principle of circular economy and developed a series of evaluation indicators for APGL. In view of the result, some relevant policy suggestions are presented according to the obtained analysis results
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