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DocumentSmallholder Contract Farming of Swine in Northern Viet Nam: Type and Scale of Production
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
2006Also available in:
No results found.This brief report summarizes initial findings on the major types of production activities swine producers engage in, as well as their scale of operations, in relation to their institutional production and marketing arrangements. -
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. -
DocumentMarket Participation of Smallholder Poultry Producers in Northern Viet Nam
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
2007Also available in:
No results found.The constraints posed by weak market infrastructure and poor access to livestock services particularly in the highlands, and to a certain extent in the midlands, are found to be far more adverse on traditional small-scale producers than on semi-commercial smallholder poultry producers. Choice of main market outlets is also heavily influenced by proximity to market centres, with itinerant village traders gaining in importance as market outlet as scale of smallholder production increases. Itineran t traders are the main link between smallholder producers and consumers in larger urban centres, largely through informal market chains. The paper argues that policy and institutional changes directed at making these informal market chains more efficient and safe through improved marketing infrastructure and services would be far more effective tools in improving market access by smallholder producers, particularly in the more remote uplands, than the imposition of restrictions aimed at curtaili ng the market power of itinerant traders.
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