Multicriteria Methodology for the Efficient Programming of Agricultural Cultivation Activities in a Colombian Region

Table 2

The Saaty scale.

Saaty’s scale	Definition	Explanation
1	Equally important	Two activities that contribute equally to the objective
3	Weakly important	Experience and judgment slightly favor one element over the other
5	Something important	Experience and judgment strongly favor one element over the other
7	Strongly important	One element is very dominant over the other
9	Absolutely important	The evidence favoring one element over another is of the highest possible order of affirmation
2, 4, 6, 8	Intermediate values between two adjacent scales	They are used as a compromise between two judgments