Co-locating the processing of agricultural products

Determination and identification of areas with economic potential, particularly in the production and processing of agricultural products and targeted investments in rural, urban and regional planning, one important issue is the clinical role to increase the employment, income, of rural productivity and improve livelihoods, country plays. In this context, the aim of this study establish priority locations for processing agricultural cooperatives in rural areas of the West provinces (Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Ilam, Lorestan and Hamedan) is using TOPSIS. For this purpose, one of the most important factors affecting the establishment of cooperatives in rural areas of the West Country, the availability of raw materials were selected and used to determine the weights while studying literature, by using the snowball proposly sampling method, 11 instructor,experts from industries processing agricultural selected and their comments were used. The results showed that based on the availability of raw materials to industries, rural areas of Kermanshah and Hamadan, had the highest level of TOPSIS method is based cooperatives and rural areas in the provinces of Lorestan, Kurdistan, and third to the fifth were ranked Ilam .