TY - JOUR
T1 - Conservation of mangroves through certified organic shrimp production
T2 - are farmers willing to adopt?
AU - Tran, Duyen Thi Thu
AU - Takahashi, Yoshifumi
AU - Nomura, Hisako
AU - Kusudo, Takeru
AU - Yabe, Mitsuyasu
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is funded in part by the Can Tho University Improvement Project VN14-P6, supported by a Japanese ODA loan. Acknowledgments
Funding Information:
In 2013, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Netherlands Development Organization started a third project, funded by BMUB, the German Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources, Building, and Nuclear Safety. Under this project, farmers are directly paid VND 3000 (USD 0.13—approximately 1% of the shrimp price) as price premium per kilogram of organic shrimp by the Minh Phu Seafood Corporation. Farmers also received VND 500,000 (USD 22) for owning 1 ha of mangrove. In addition, the company sells quality shrimp seed at a lower price to farmers. In total, the added value for shrimp is 2.5% of the shrimp price (IUCN ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - Safe and environmentally friendly production has become an important trend in the aquaculture sector. Vietnam has successfully implemented a certified organic shrimp production project and is now planning to expand it. To successfully implement the certified organic shrimp production project in new areas, the ex ante evaluation of the factors influencing farmers’ decision to participate in this project is essential. Thus, this research determines factors affecting shrimp farmers’ decision to participate in a certified organic shrimp production project by analyzing a multinomial logit model. A survey was conducted in the Vietnamese part of the Mekong Delta and covered 220 shrimp farmers. The results show that farmers who have higher mangrove coverage in their shrimp farms are more likely to participate in the project. The likelihood of adoption also increases when farmers have a higher level of education. Interestingly, the premium commanded by the certified organic shrimp is not among the important factors affecting farmers’ decision to participate in the project.
AB - Safe and environmentally friendly production has become an important trend in the aquaculture sector. Vietnam has successfully implemented a certified organic shrimp production project and is now planning to expand it. To successfully implement the certified organic shrimp production project in new areas, the ex ante evaluation of the factors influencing farmers’ decision to participate in this project is essential. Thus, this research determines factors affecting shrimp farmers’ decision to participate in a certified organic shrimp production project by analyzing a multinomial logit model. A survey was conducted in the Vietnamese part of the Mekong Delta and covered 220 shrimp farmers. The results show that farmers who have higher mangrove coverage in their shrimp farms are more likely to participate in the project. The likelihood of adoption also increases when farmers have a higher level of education. Interestingly, the premium commanded by the certified organic shrimp is not among the important factors affecting farmers’ decision to participate in the project.
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U2 - 10.1007/s13165-019-00271-5
DO - 10.1007/s13165-019-00271-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089213780
SN - 1879-4238
VL - 10
SP - 277
EP - 288
JO - Organic Agriculture
JF - Organic Agriculture
IS - 3
ER -