TAILIEUCHUNG - Measures to increase income of coffee-planters in Western Highlands

Vietnam has become the world’s second largest exporter of coffee and the largest exporter of robusta bean. In the past ten years, coffee has been one of Vietnam’s staple exports that has made great contributions to the industrialization and modernization process. Living standard of coffee-planters, however, has not much improved because revenue from selling coffee is not much higher than production cost. | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT No. 204, August 2011 MEASURES TO INCREASE INCOME OF COFFEE-PLANTERS IN WESTERN HIGHLANDS by Assoc. Prof, Dr. ÑINH PHI HOÅ* & MEcon. PHAÏM NGOÏC DÖÔÕNG** Vietnam has become the world’s second largest exporter of coffee and the largest exporter of robusta bean. In the past ten years, coffee has been one of Vietnam’s staple exports that has made great contributions to the industrialization and modernization process. Living standard of coffee-planters, however, has not much improved because revenue from selling coffee is not much higher than production cost. This problem means that scientific solutions to income rises are real challenges to policy-makers. To find a solution, it is necessary to identify factors that affect the income of coffee planters. Employing the theory of agronomy and realities in Vietnam, authors have developed a multivariate regression model to quantify the factors that affect the income of coffee planters. A direct investigation of 293 coffee-growing families in provinces of Laâm Ñoàng and Ñaék Laék was carried out with a view to testing and putting the model into practice. Results show that the income is affected by four factors: coffee-growing area, strain of coffee, coffee-planters’ knowledge, and application of biological techniques. Keywords: coffee, income of planter families, multivariate regression 1. Introduction Coffee is one of the farm products that yields high values and is an important source of income for many countries including Vietnam. In the past decade, it has been one of staple exports of Vietnam and made great contributions to the industrialization and modernization process. From 2005 on, export of coffee has brought Vietnam in from US$ to billion a year. Coffee planters, however, still face a lot of difficulties and their income from coffee is sometimes lower than the production cost. To find a scientific solution to this problem, therefore, is a real challenge to policy-makers. Identifying .

• Kinh tế học
• Coffee planters in Western Highlands
• Income of planter families
• Multivariate regression
• Production cost
• Increase income
• Employees’ social capital
• Social capital
• Structural equation modeling
• increase employee income
• Putnam’s social capital theory
• Network of social relationships
• Rich Manage
• Cash Flow
• Massively Increase
• Multiple Streams
• Income Online
• Controlling Expenses
• patient involvement
• risks and benefits
• informed decision
• medicine prices increase
• respiratory infection
• chronic diseases
• Enhanced value added solutions
• Pineapple product
• Poor households
• Tien Giang province
• Money Matters
• Increase Your Income
• Debt
• New Budget
• Rich Buddies
• Farming system approach
• Integrated farming systems
• Farm household
• Rural economy development
• Rural economy
• Protected fertigation
• Fertigation on bell pepper grown
• Protected conditions
• Increase their income many times
• Irrigation called fertigation
• BMC Cancer
• Systematic review
• Colorectal cancer
• Fecal testing
• Implementation science
• Vulnerable populations
• Human resources
• Tourism human resource
• Tourism development
• Employment problem
• Socio economic development
• Labour export
• Workers themselves
• Economic growth
• Dangerous occupations
• Discipline and increase income
• Electronic computing
• RECOGNIZING REALITY
• BECOME WEALTHY
• WEALTHY HABITS
• PERSONAL INCOME
• RADICALLY INCREASE