Outcomes of Vietnamas Agrarian Policies after aoDoi Moia: A Case Study of Attempted Agricultural Intensification and Diversification In a Village in Vietnamas Mekong Delta

This study reviews Vietnam s agrarian policy since Doi Moi and examines the impacts of these policy shifts in one village of the Mekong Delta In Vietnam agrarian policy changes since Doi Moi in 1988 have gradually led to the intensification of rice production and high-value food production including prawns and fish for export and the domestic market in the Mekong Delta But the benefits have been unevenly distributed among farmers In particular farmers with small land holdings have faced many difficulties This study reveals that in the study village prawn and fish farming has in general failed due to the high risks that can occur in raising them either in the field or in a fish pond under the intensification of rice land utilizatio

The Factors Affecting the Net Income of the Households for Mono Rice Production, Rice-Upland Crop and Rice-Aquaculture in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

The study on the factors affecting the net income of the households for mono rice production rice-upland crop and rice-aquaculture in the Mekong Delta was conducted in July 2013 which aimed to 1 Assess the main resources of the households 2 Analyze factors impacting the net income and 3 Propose solutions for improving the net income for rice production rice-upland crop and rice-aquaculture of households in the Mekong Delta The analysis method was based on the descriptive statistics and the multiple linear regressions The study results showed that 1 The educational levels of the household heads were low 2 The farmland was large with 1 95 hectare per household 3 There are three groups of household having the main net income from agricultural production and the second net income from the non-agricultural activity 4 The net income of the mono rice production households was affected by the participation association of the household heads and the farmland area 5 the net income of the rice-upland crop households was impacted by the family man-days and the production investment in materials and 6 the net income of the riceaquacultural households was effected by the educationallevels the family man-days and the farmland area Based onthe study results some solutions for improvement of the household net income were propose

Laborer Status and the Effect of Vocational Training on Employment and Income of Rural Laborers in Kien Giang Province, Vietnam

The results of this study show that Kien Giang has an abundant youth laborer force 43 of laborers are between the ages 15 to 29 most of whom are involved in the handicraft sector and non-agriculture wage employment while most laborers aging between 45 and 60 are involved in agricultural work However laborers had a difficult time finding jobs after participating in career training because the quality of training was not high and because the duration of training was short Of those being trained 51 received training in industrial and construction profession

Livelihood Diversification Strategies of Khmer and Kinh Farmers in the Mekong Delta since the 1993 Land Law

With the introduction of the 1993 Land Law and other economic reforms in Vietnam land has effectively become a commodity the distribution of which is controlled by market mechanisms As a result both ethnic Khmer and Kinh ethnic Vietnamese farmers in the Mekong Delta have responded by diversifying their livelihood strategies This study finds that 1 The better-off Kinh households had more capital to expand their land for their farming and business Therefore more the Kinh households bought land than Khmer households did Vice versa more Khmer households sold their land than Kinh households did In both Khmer and Kinh households the better-off households bought land and the poor households sold land Nowadays the land sizes per household have shrunk and are not large enough for farming 2 Intensification and diversification were implemented within various groups Those who own land try to intensify rice farming and to combine farm activities with off-farm and non-farm activities but those who are landless have to rely on hiring out their labor in both the farm and non-farm activities and 3 Externally driven forces have shifted the sources of local labor and hired labor for agricultural production in the local area Thus hired laborers required from outside the local areas are acquired through labor market networking between farmers and the poor hired laborers in the region The poor landless Khmers in Soc Trang province have found alternative ways to cope with the risks they face in terms of survival Consequently the hired labor from the poor Khmers in Soc Trang contributed effectively to the rice harvest seasons in Thoi Lai Can Tho comprising 20 percent of the laborers for the rice production and contributing 70 percent of the total hired laborers for harvesting rice in the hamlet in 200

An Intensive Rice Production System Using Hired Mobile Khmer Ethnicity Laborers from Soc Trang, Vietnam

In Can Tho City area like much of the Mekong Delta of Southern Vietnam both the Kinh and Khmer ethnicity farmers and agricultural wage laborers have had to cope with many changes due to emerging national agricultural policies the move to a market economy increased labor market competition and new land market policies Many landholding farmers lack sufficient labor for intensive rice production and so must rely on seasonal agricultural wage laborers for their harvests Seasonal agricultural wage employment provides important livelihood opportunity for landless and land-poor Khmer ethnicity workers from other parts of the Mekong Delta but this work is precarious The long-term survival of this intensive labor system is uncertain in the context of current moves towards agricultural mechanizatio

Rice-freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) farms in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Integrated farming, Rice culture, Prawn culture, Mekong Delta, Viet Nam, Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Government Support and Firm Profitability in Vietnam

Existing studies on the linkage between government subsidies and firm financial performance often use a mean regression approach and focus mainly on developed countries. To fill the gap, this study, for the first time, considers the impact of government support activities on the profitability of manufacturing SMEs in a developing country, Vietnam. Using an unbalanced panel dataset covering the period 2009–2015, government financial supports show an insignificant linkage with firm profitability when using OLS. However, a fixed-effect quantile approach reveals that government financial support is negatively related for firms with low profit but is positively related for firms in the high profitability percentile. Our findings also suggest that policymakers should focus on helping start-ups instead of ineffective, informal firms