Farmer Incentives for Improving Pangasius Quality at the Small-Scale Farming
- September 2, 2020
- Posted by: RSIS Team
- Categories: Agriculture, IJRIAS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science (IJRIAS) | Volume V, Issue VI, June 2020 | ISSN 2454-6194
Farmer Incentives for Improving Pangasius Quality at the Small-Scale Farming
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Nguyen Doan Khoi
Department of Scientific Research Affairs, Can Tho University
Abstract:- This paper presented how to involve the small-scale Pangasius farmers in developing adequate quality management through the entire export-oriented supply chain. In practical, the processing firms are prefer to purchase fish from larger scale farms and reliable quality of products. The research results shown which incentives can be used to improved quality at the farm level. It is equally to create procedures for analyzing small-scale farmers attitudes toward export market and thus have the information required to decide whether the individual farmers, farmers’s association or farmers clubs in order to penetrate export market successfully.
Key words: small-scale farmer, Pangasius, export supply chain, incentives
I. INTRODUCTION
In Vietnam the situation is similar other developing countries for smallholders. The total area used for aquaculture in the MRD is around 600,000 hectares of which most belong to small-scale farmers producing for themselves and markets (FAO, 2016).
However, statistics on the amount of smallholders in the aquaculture sector in Vietnam are lacking. Accurate data on the amount of farmers, location of farms and their production capacity are not publicly available. However, are the so called smallholders in the Pangasius sector really smallholders? This is interesting to know, as often interventions are targeting to assist the so called smallholders
