| ID: | 60955 |
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| Country: | Viet Nam |
| Title: | Viet Nam - Agriculture, Farmers and Rural Areas Support Project in the Tuyen Quang, Ninh, Thuan and Gia Lai Provinces (TNSP) - Dec 2018 |
| Description: |
Tran Thi Xuan, 27, is a smallholder farmer who grows Vietnamese apples (Ziziphus Mauritania) in Dong Tien village. The apple crop is well suited for a changing climate and limited rainfall. They used to grow rice in the area but apples bring in a higher income and require less water. In just one year, the profit from selling the harvested apples completely covered her initial investment and by the second year, she was able to make a profit. This switch from rice to apples has helped to greatly reduce poverty in the area. Tran is part of the Dao ethnic minority and a local youth leader. She began growing apples in 2012, and due to her substantially increased income, she was able to buy a new motorbike and is planning to build a new house next year. She sells her apples to a local trader and has her own fruit stall set up on the main road that runs alongside her house. Tran’s finds that the main challenges she faces are that now that she is producing high-quality organic apples, she would like to find a more stable market to buy her product at the market price. She also would like to further cut down on production costs. She owns 100 apple trees which yield approximately 5 tons of apples per year. “Before we planted rice and maize but since there is less rainfall, we couldn’t them well anymore. One or two households in the area tried to grow apple trees. They saw that there was a high value in selling the apples, so others began farming apples as well.” “Now we need more technical advice to refine our products. Before we used chemical products but now we have developed organic fertilizers, it is cheaper and helps us to preserve the land as well.” The IFAD-supported project ran from 2011 to 2016 and reached 73,800 poor rural households living in 117 poor rural communes in Tuyen Quang, Gia Lai and Ninh Thuan Provinces. The goal was to improve the overall quality of life by increasing household incomes and improving household food security and nutrition. This was done by helping poor rural people to participate in suitable on-farm and off-farm economic activities, increasing smallholder producers’ access to markets and by connecting private agribusiness investors to rural producers. In Tuyen Quan the main agricultural products that the project promoted were: tea, arrowroot, pig, fish, goat, peanut, alcohol and chicken. In Gia Lai they were: chicken, maize, coffee, goat, cow and pig and in Ninh Thuan the products were onion, apple, sugarcane, garlic, goat, asparagus, and cow. Households that participated in the improved commercialization of agricultural production, otherwise known as “value chains”, have increased their incomes more than the target 25 per cent by the end of the project. |
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| Show more details: | Susan Beccio |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Susan Beccio |
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