Modelling the factors affecting the adoption of eco-friendly rice production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Tú, Võ Hồng; Can, Nguyen Duy; Takahashi, Yoshifumi; Kopp, Steven W.; Yabe, Mitsuyasu

doi:10.1080/23311932.2018.1432538

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“…Furthermore, group membership creates linkages which facilitate the exchange of ideas, experiences and new innovations which can increase the number of preventive practices adopted. These findings are consistent with Tu et al (2018)'s findings where membership in the agricultural club had a positive influence on adoption of eco-friendly rice production in Vietnam such as integrated pest management methods.…”

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“…Khan and Damalas (2015) associated heightened risk perception with the adoption of alternative pest control methods. In contrast, Tu et al (2018) observed that farmers with higher risk perception were less likely to adopt eco-friendly rice production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta due to fear of failure (uncertainty) of the new eco-friendly practices to achieve the desired outcome Membership to a group positively influenced the intensity of uptake of preventive measures at 5% significant level. To adopt higher numbers of preventive measures such as use of improved crop varieties and crop rotation, a farmer may require credit, relevant information, training and other essential services.…”

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confidence: 88%

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Determinants of intensity of uptake of alternative pest control methods: A case of small- scale tomato farmers in Kenya

Kinuthia¹,

Ayuya²,

Nyaanga³

2019

J. Dev. Agric. Econ.

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Inappropriate use of chemical pesticide in horticultural production is an emerging problem causing undesirable human health and environmental effects in developing countries including Kenya. Thus, objective of this study is to evaluate the determinants of the intensity of uptake of alternative pest control methods among small-scale tomato farmers in Nakuru County, Kenya. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select a sample of 384 tomato farmers. Data were collected using a semistructured questionnaire administered by trained enumerators. Alternative pest control methods which were identified during the survey were categorized into four groups using principal component analysis. Determinants of the intensity of uptake of alternative pest control methods were estimated using multivariate tobit model. Group membership, age, education and number of training increased the intensity of uptake of alternative methods. Participation in off-farm activities and farm size decreased the intensity of uptake of alternative methods. These results indicate that farmers' awareness that involves comprehensive training programs and enhancing the capacity of farmer groups as change agents is warranted. Moreover, these research findings could also inform policymakers while formulating and implementing targeted interventions aimed at promoting the use of alternative pest control methods that minimize negative health and environmental effects from overuse of pesticides.

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Determinants of intensity of uptake of alternative pest control methods: A case of small- scale tomato farmers in Kenya

Kinuthia¹,

Ayuya²,

Nyaanga³

2019

J. Dev. Agric. Econ.

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“…The result practically pointed out the usefulness of extension courses in term of changing farmer's using chemical substance behaviour to produce their crops. The pro-environment action of rural households is necessarily conducted to guide them hot to develop their farming production sustainably (Khanh et al, 2006;Ha, 2014 andTu et al, 2018). However, the amount of connected households having opportunity to participate into extension training courses is 92 percent in Table 1, the sign and magnitude of extension in Table 2 indicate the practically positive relationship between participation to extension class and households' connection to the local political system.…”

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Economic impact of political ties in Vietnam: Evidence from northern rural households

Nguyen‐Anh

2020

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This paper focuses on investigating the impacts of political connections on households’ income and their agricultural investment in mountainous areas of Vietnam by employing several matching methodologies. Propensity score matching (PSM) is an increasingly well-known approach for evaluation studies in agricultural economics. Additionally, this study attempts to verify the significance of political connection in rural economics. To conduct the empirical approach, the article uses surveyed data of 550 households from three provinces in the north of Vietnam. The findings indicate that political connection has a significantly positive impact on households’ total income and farming behaviour, but has a very negative impact on households’ agricultural investment. The difference between the income of the connected and non-connected group of households is estimated at approximately 30 million VND (US$ 1,304) per year. However, the total income of the connected households is not heavily based on agricultural production, their non-agricultural activities account for a larger share of their total income. Another important outcome is to confirm the privileges of politically connected households in terms of receiving extension courses that substantially increase the inequality between rural households in survey areas because the distribution of government subsidy is distorted to target the necessities.

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“…The agriculture sector is still an important sector in Vietnam as it contributes more than 15% of the country's gross domestic product and provides jobs for more than 40% of the total labour force (GSO, 2019; Nguyen et al, 2019). Sustainable agriculture development has been consequently implemented in Vietnam via pest management, ecological engineering and other campaigns (Tu, Can, Takahashi, Kopp, & Yabe, 2018), covering a wide range of activities on rice, banana, coffee and aquaculture farms (D'haeze, Deckers, Raes, Phong, & Loi, 2005; Le, Shimamura, & Yamada, 2020; Nguyen et al, 2019; Nguyen & Chinawat, 2015; Tran & Kajisa, 2006; World Bank, 2017). Those studies have analysed different angles of the sustainable development of the Vietnamese agriculture sector in terms of different products, locations and factors (e.g., knowledge, productivity and government policy) affecting this development; however, our study is the first examining the sector regarding its systemically sustainability indicators such as agroecology and socio‐territory (details on those indicators as well as the IDEA framework are in the following section).…”

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Assessing the important factors of sustainable agriculture development: An Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles‐Analytic Hierarchy Process study in the northern region of Vietnam

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Nguyen²,

Ho³

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Sustainable Development

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Combining the systemic indicators of sustainable agriculture provided by the Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles (IDEA) framework and the pairwise comparison method provided by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique, this study examined 644 farmers in the Northern region of Vietnam (using Bac Giang province as a case study) to identify and rank those important factors according to their contributions to the farmer's practices. We found that the Economic dimension is the most important factor that contributes 54% toward the overall Sustainable Agriculture, followed by the Socio-territorial dimension (29%) and then the Agroecology dimension (17%). We further argue that while it is reasonable for farmers to focus on the sustainable economic performance aspect of their farms, there is a need for the local authorities to be involved to maintain a balanced sustainable agriculture development in the region. K E Y W O R D S agriculture, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles (IDEA), Northern region of Vietnam, sustainable development | INTRODUCTIONThe agriculture sector is becoming more important, especially in developing countries, because of its central role in food safety, hunger and

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Modelling the factors affecting the adoption of eco-friendly rice production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta

Cited by 21 publications

References 42 publications

Determinants of intensity of uptake of alternative pest control methods: A case of small- scale tomato farmers in Kenya

Determinants of intensity of uptake of alternative pest control methods: A case of small- scale tomato farmers in Kenya

Economic impact of political ties in Vietnam: Evidence from northern rural households

Assessing the important factors of sustainable agriculture development: An Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles‐Analytic Hierarchy Process study in the northern region of Vietnam

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