Baseline studiesKey Findings

Vietnam Presented at the second annual TMPEGS-Vietnam Meeting

Nong Lam UniversityJune 2007

NLU Team

Objective:

Provide a socio-economic data as a basis for the design of VIDIN

development/experiments and socio-economic impact assessment of integrated vegetable-agroforestry

system

Activities

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Activities and Outputs (planing)

BASELINE STUDY (Activities and Outputs)

BASELINE STUDY (Activities and Outputs)

Training for household survey, data coding and analysis, reporting results

Conducting household survey

A total number of 306 farm households with different

wealth status (poor, medium, and better-off households)

have been interviewed. Data collected include farm and

farm household characteristics, gender roles,

household income and consumption, labor availability,

cropping system, production and marketing data, and

other socio-economic data.

Nutrient survey:

A questionnaire was developed for

the household nutrient survey. The

team has conducted the nutrient

survey to record data on

household food security and

information from 3 most recent

meals of 270 households.

Participatory focus group

discussions with small scale

farmers both women and men

(SSFWM) on issues related to

VAF and VIDIN technologies.

KEY FINDINGS:

• Most farmers in the study area have

perennial cash crops (cashew, coffee, and

rubber, black pepper, and fruit trees).

• Most back yard home garden has existing

cashew trees. Vegetables are not

abundant on the site.

• Over 80% of vegetables consumed by poor

and intermediate households are

purchased; only 15% are obtained from

farm, garden or forest.

KEY FINDINGS:

• The demand for integrating vegetable in

existing cashew planting is mainly for

home consumption and for local market.

• At present there are agronomic obstacles

for inter-cropping vegetables with the

dominant perennials (cashew, coffee,

pepper, and rubber), labor constraint, lack

of suitable shade-tolerant vegetable

varieties, and substantial financial and

marketing constraints for commercial

vegetable production, especially in the

more remote and poorer hamlets.

KEY FINDINGS:

• Integration of vegetables with cashew

trees may benefit SSFWM and will be

useful for home consumption to improve

SSFWM nutrition and for soil

conservation.

KEY FINDINGS:

• There are significant opportunities for

SANREM to conduct research and training

that address the priority needs of farmers,

and thereby to contribute to small farmer

incomes and environmental protection in

Nghia Trung, and watershed services in the

study area and in Binh Phuoc province.