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DocumentStrengthening Market Linkages of Smallholder Pig Producers through Informal Contracts in Northern Viet Nam
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
2007Also available in:
No results found.Formal contracts with integrator companies are limited to large-scale pig producers in Viet Nam. There are, however, forms of informal contracts where smaller-scale pig producers establish stable links with their input suppliers or/and output buyers. Traders screen farmers with whom they could potentially engage into contracts. As relations become more established and stable, farmer reputation / reliability, rather than scale of production, becomes the more important consideration. Human and social capital factors of pig producers are found to be significant determinants of participation in contracts. Farmers engaged in informal contracts with cooperatives benefit from contract participation through higher average net returns per unit of output in the case they use ‘mixed breeds’ of pigs. The benefit is not clear cut with respect to the use of exotic breeds. -
DocumentPoultry Supply Chains and Market Failures in Northern Viet Nam
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
2008Also available in:
No results found.Our farm surveys as well as other research in Viet Nam indicate that poultry production is important for the incomes of the rural poor and it is important to recognize that the poor are involved in all stages of the poultry market chain, not just in production. Poultry market channels in northern Viet Nam might be generalized into two or three major avenues: in one small scale farmers produce local chicken and sell to nearby markets or to urban areas through informal channels. In another, medium and large farms sell through formal, regulated channels such as wholesale markets. In a few cases, large companies have built their own slaughterhouses, nearing complete vertical integration. These poultry markets are at a critical juncture. The newer, more formal marketing chains are considered to be easier to regulate, however, if smallholders and / or small-scale traders cannot market local chicken through these channels, they will continue using informal channels due to the high levels of d emand for the local type of chicken in Ha Noi. -
DocumentThe Poultry Sector in Viet Nam: Prospects for Smallholder Producers in the Aftermath of the HPAI Crisis
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
2007Also available in:
No results found.Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Type A H5N1 subtype is a viral zoonotic disease that has infected and killed birds and humans in SE Asia, Africa and Europe since late 2003. In 2006, a total of 47 countries reported HPAI outbreaks: 24 in Europe, 15 in Asia and 8 in Africa. From November 2003 to July 25, 2007 there have been a total of 319 confirmed cases in humans resulting in 192 deaths (60.2 percent mortality rate). National governments and international agencies are intensively studying meas ures to control disease spread, and among these, a restructuring of the poultry industry in a way, which threatens livelihoods of smallholder poultry producers. Unsubstantiated and reactive governmental measures against this disease can prove detrimental to the contribution of poultry farming to family livelihoods and national food security, be it either directly through loss of income-generating poultry outputs or indirectly through disincentives against traditional backyard farming, and in fav our of intensive commercial production systems.
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