Abstract
This paper analyzes the impacts of financial management and farming practices on the technical efficiency of Sengcu rice growers in Laocai, a mountainous province of Vietnam. The stratified random sampling method was employed to select 170 households representing two typical ecologies, lowland and upland. The structured questionnaire was applied to collect primary data through face-to-face interviews regarding current farming practices in the 2016–2017 growing seasons and farm-specific characteristics. The importantly, the study makes recommendations for policy-makers regarding how to manage provision extension, irrigation, and credit services more effectively and for producers regarding how to better manage cash-flows and receive more benefits from public support in order to improve the effectiveness of rice production and make a livelihood while working towards sustainability.
Highlights
The Northern Midlands and Mountains (NMMs) is the largest ecological region of Vietnam, constituting 29% of the national land area and 34% of upland rice cropping [1,2]
This paper analyzes the impacts of financial management and farming practices on the technical efficiency of Sengcu rice growers in Laocai, a mountainous province of Vietnam
Laocai was chosen for researching rice production in NMM areas of Vietnam because it is the only province with the same average rice productivity as the whole region
Summary
The Northern Midlands and Mountains (NMMs) is the largest ecological region of Vietnam, constituting 29% of the national land area and 34% of upland rice cropping [1,2]. It is characterized by a hilly mountainous topography and a high diversity of ethnic groups, and is the poorest region of Vietnam. Ranaweera (1993) and Laquihon (1992) drew a sad picture of the Asian uplands, of which the key symbols were poverty, hunger, hopelessness, discontent, greediness, and exploitation They explain that this is due to “the lack of system perspective in the development and use of upland technologies” [3,4].
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