Smallholder Contract Farming of Swine in Northern Viet Nam: Contract Types
Abstract
The rapid growth in demand for pork in Viet Nam presents an opportunity for rural swine keeping households to improve their incomes. However, despite the fact that a large proportion of livestock production in Viet Nam still comes from smallholder production systems that generally have limited access to markets, inputs, and livestock services, government policy favours the development of large commercial livestock production of pigs intended for the export market, through investment and other incentives. If the reduction of rural poverty is one of the main policy goals, then there is a need to better integrate the rural smallholder producers into the growth process to enable them to capture some of its benefits. One possibility of closer integration would be through institutional arrangements that provide smallholders better access to markets and livestock services.
In partnership with national and international research institutions, PPLPI initiated a field research project entitled 'Contract Farming for Equitable Market-Oriented Smallholder Swine Production in Northern Viet Nam' to identify forms of contract farming of swine that allow smallholder producers to benefit from the rapidly changing production environment. The ultimate objective is to identify a set of policy and intervention options for the facilitation of profitable, market-oriented livestock farming partnerships between smallholders and larger enterprises.
This brief report summarizes initial findings on the typology of contracts between different market actors on northern Viet Nam.
Citation
PPLPI, FAO, Rome, Italy, 5 pp.
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