TY  - SER
AU  - Do Kim Chung
AU  - Waibel,Hermann
AU  - Demaine,Harvey
AU  - Upasena,Selawa H.
ED  - The Government o f Austria, 
TI  - An economic study of selected farming systems under the new government policy in Viet Nam
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Agricultural systems
KW  - Vietnam
N1  -  A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science, School of Environment, and Development; Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1990
N2  - 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principal constraints causing l ow farmers ' income were: ( J }  low profitability of non -rice crop enterprises; (2) outdated pig  feeding practice; (3) lack of capita l ; (4) unemployment; (5 ) am!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 .11·111  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
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