location ranking of conversion and compietion industries in agriculture sector (a case study: mazandaran province)

regarding to role and importance of conversion and compietion industries in preventing to agricultural waste, establishment of these industries is an appropriate solution to agricultural development. regarding to this problem that these industries are faced with inadequate supply of raw materials in terms of appropriate price and quality in their location, this study is ranking the cities of mazandaran province in terms of the ability of conversion and compietion industries in the agriculture sector. for this reason, entropy and vikor techniques were used. the results show that capabilities of behshahr, neka and sari cities are more than other city in establishing of these industries. so it is suggested that future investments and planning for the convertion and compietion industries, take place in these cities, which have the lower costs and higher value added.