| Author | Do Kim Chung |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.AE-90-40 |
| Subject(s) | Agricultural systems--Vietnam
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| Note |
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Recently , Viet Na m departed from the collectivized
agricultural production system to an individual oriented contract
sys t e m of production . Policies have resulted in partial
liberalizing all input and output marketing and in allowing
households to maximize their output and incomes. However,
farmers ' income are still low, food supply is still insufficient
in terms of the farm family nutritional reequipment. The problems
faced by farmers can be. seen as follows: ( 1} How do farmers make
decisions within limited farm resources in order to achieve their
own goals? (2 ) How former cooperative could assist its members in
agribusiness? ( 3 ) What are further policy improvement of fanning
system that can be adopted?
To deal with these problems, a case study 0f selected
farming systems in Minh Quang cooperative, Vu Thu district , Thai
Binh province was carried out. In this study , linear programming
and parametric programming approaches were employedi11
complementary for conventional farm economic analysis , deriving
optimum combination of farm enterprises and testing policy
option s for improvements.
The analysis of the existing farm ogranization showed t hat
the principal constraints causing l ow farmers ' income were: ( J }
low profitability of non -rice crop enterprises; (2) outdated pig
feeding practice; (3) lack of capita l ; (4) unemployment; (5 ) am!
low mark et price of output relative to production costs.
Diversification of crop enterprises by introducing high
quality rice varieties and high yield varieties of non-rice
crops; improvement of feeding practice by marking use of maize ,
soybean , sweet potato instead of milled rice ; and innovation of
carp et making could improve resource productivity and f .11ยท111
income. However , the full benefits of t h ese measures will not be
realised unless the two following strategies are implemented : (1)
former production cooperative should be re -organized into
marketing cooperative and ( 2 } con tract quota system should be
modified.
The results indicate further study with more appropriate
models in which the risks of output p rice and yields are
best incorporated . |
| Year | 1990 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Agricultural and Food Engineering (AE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Waibel, Hermann |
| Examination Committee(s) | Demaine, Harvey ;Upasena, Selawa H.
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| Scholarship Donor(s) | The Government o f Austria |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1990 |