Abstract

Clam farming in the coastal provinces of Vietnam has notably developed since the last decade. It generated high income, improve socio-economic development for many local communities. However, many clam raising farms were facing difficulties of farm management, disease control, markets and systems of quality control. This research aimed to study about the real situation of cost monitoring in the clam raising farms in the Northern area of Vietnam and suggested some recommendation to promote the benefits for farmers. The paper is based on the semi-structure, standard questionnaires and PRA method to collect data from 112 clam raising farms in two coastal provinces (Nam

Highlights

  • The traditional production systems of rice monopoly in coastal municipalities in Vietnam have been significantly changed since the 2000s

  • Clam farming in the coastal provinces of Vietnam has notably developed and provides farmers a chance of getting high income parallel with high risk of massive death and low performance results

  • Capacity of farm cost control; farmers’ experience, skill, technique and ability of risk control; unstable market and unsuitable market channel; and the area and location of clam raising were the four major factors affecting the performance of clam raising farms

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Introduction

The traditional production systems of rice monopoly in coastal municipalities in Vietnam have been significantly changed since the 2000s. Faced with relatively low incomes, many rice farms and salt farms have converted the surfaces to aquaculture production These changes have had a significant impact on revenues generated in coastal towns with changes in the organization of work and the creation of upstream markets for food plants (Thuyet and Dzung, 2013). This type of family aquaculture has grown rapidly to meet the domestic demand and to export markets. Clam farming in the coastal provinces of Vietnam has notably developed since the last decade It generated high income, improve socio-economic development for many local communities (WA and CA, 2009)

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