THE ENHANCEMENT OF WILD PIG AND WILD PORK VALUE CHAIN IN THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
BUI THI THOM *
Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry, Vietnam.
DINH TRAN NGOC HUY
Banking University HCMC, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam - International University of Japan, Japan.
NGUYEN DINH TRUNG
National Economics University (NEU), Hanoi, Vietnam.
BUI THI SUU
Tay Bac University, Quyet Tam Ward, Son La City, Son La Province, Vietnam.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country with many years of agricultural development. The research aim is to explore feeding mechanism of wild pigs in Vietnam and mention factors affecting people's participation in the development of agricultural value chains, in the case of wild pigs and wild pork meat - agricultural products in Vietnam, esp. In the northern region. The analysis results show that factors including: income, natural conditions, loan, capital, market, transportation have high effects on the level of people's participation. There are big wild pig farming in Vietnam and in the North of Vietnam and begin to adapt to GlobalGAP or VIETGAP standards and Vietnamese have long experience in processing wild pork meat into delicious foods. Big corporation scan participate in value chain from input material stage to production and consuming. Finally, authors propose several solutions to improve people's participation in agricultural value chain development. The reason authors mention value chain in agriculture because it will helps farmers to deal with lower price - difficulties during good seasons.
Keywords: Agricultural products, value chain, wild pigs and pork, northern region, Vietnam