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.