WORLD AGRICULTURE WATCH SEMINAR
What information needs to better inform policy
on ongoing structural changes?
The case of farms monitoring systems in Vietnam
ROMA, FAO, 23-25 April 2012
Hoang Vu Quang, IPSARDRapid important changes
Move of production zone
- decrease livestock activity in delta, increase in highland
Specialization and concentration Forms of production organization:
- Household
- Farm household, big farm - Enterprises / Mega-farms
Rapid introduction of new high technology
- breed (exotic, F1) - industrial feeds - organic products
- Production technique
Drivers of changes
Public policies and public services
Integration into international economy, competition Urbanization and industrialization
Natural disasters/Climate change Diseases
Requirement on food safety of consumers
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 1961 1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Pigs (millions of heads)
- 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Milk (tonnes)
Challenges for Public Authorities
Projection of trend of changes of production system
Be informed rapidly, exactly and adequately on current
production, particularly in crisis cases (epidemic
diseases, food safety,…)
Identify impact of external shocks (crisis, epidemic) on
producers (income, production lost,…)
Forecast the availability of domestic production
Develop the strategy, supporting policies
Difficulty: lack of adequate information system
Official data / information systems
GSO: (General Statistical Office)
- Publication of statistic data on year basis
- Big surveys 4 year/time not supply detailed necessary information - Data not used for making
decision
in production managementMARD: (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development)
- Collect quantitative information, firstly plant area - Surveys by topic when needed, but at small scale
- Collected information used for making decision in production management, but
not sufficient
Proposition : to Design of a New
Generation of Farms Monitoring Systems
Objective:
First of all:
respond to the demand of MARD to have
timely, adequately the information about real
production situation
Provide information for private sector, market
stakeholders, extension agents, producers
Establish database serving researchers, development of
strategy
Approach
Information need
of stakeholders
- Policymakers - Market actors - Extension agent - Researchers - ProducersKind of collected
information
- Form of production - Production scale - Mode of production - Market relationship - Economic efficiency - Reaction to policyMeans of
dissemination
- Bulletins - Research papers - Conferences - MediaCollect whose
info
-
Producers - Market actors -……System
organization
- Central
- Province
- Commune
- others?
Preliminary Activities for Designing a
Livestock Monitoring System
2010 : National seminar for identifying the needs
for a new generation of farms monitoring systems
(with MARD)
2011: Survey on the structure and changes in
Survey on the structure and changes in mode
of livestock production and marketing
MARD have not the information at farm production for
planning and developing policies
Collected Information on 4 forms of livestock organizaton:
- Structure of form of production
- Infrastructure and equipment for raising - Structure of breed used
- Production scale of farm (head, farrows, raising time,….) - Used feed
- Preventive and treatment measure
- Access to public services (vaccine, treatment, artificial insemination,…) - Production and productivity
- Marketing of livestock products (type of buyer, mode of marketing) - Strategy/plan of breeders
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 % 2005 2010 2005 2010 2005 2010 Hộ gia đình Gia trại/CMH Trang trại
Sự thay đổi cơ cấu phương thức chăn nuôi ở Đồng Nai
In 2010, Households (small and professionalized) account for 93 % of total pig population.
Example : Data on pig farms in Vietnam
(2011 survey)
Results 1 : Changes in livestock farming structure in Dong Nai province
Smallholder Households
Professionalize d Households
Large Farm
Source : Hoang Vu Quang et al., 2011 “Modes of production and commercialization of farms in the pig sector in Vietnam”, RUDEC, Direction of Livestock Production of MARD, Hanoi
Result 2 : Number of pigs (for meat) per farm per
year
Result 3 : Pig Breeding Sources
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Smallholder households Professionalized Households Middle-size Farms Large farms 38 58 91 60 35 24 1 39 27 18 8 1Production by themselves Breeding center Other producer
Preliminary Activities for Designing a
Livestock Monitoring System
2010 : National seminar for identifying the needs for a new
generation of farms monitoring systems (with MARD)
2011: Survey on the structure and changes in mode of
livestock production and marketing
2011: Study for :
- identifying the information need of
Needed information for monitoring the
dairy farm
Race
Milk productivity
Production unit cost
Marketing
Prevention/treatment of diseases
Utilization of feed
Preliminary Activities for Designing a
Livestock Monitoring System
2010 : National seminar for identifying the needs for a new
generation of farms monitoring systems (with MARD)
2011: Survey on the structure and changes in mode of
livestock production and marketing
2011: Study for :
- identifying the information need of policymaker and researchers toward dairy farms
- Identifying the capacity in providing the information of producers: frequency for providing the information, type of
information,…
- Reviewed the experiences of some models applied in France
Conducted by RUDEC and CIRAD Financed by MARD (and CIRAD)
Individual Animal Performances Recording Scheme
Farms Monitoring
System
Market Information System (MIS) Spatial / territorial Monitoring SystemFAO TCP for Livestock Monitoring System
TCP for supporting the setting up of the monitoring system
- Form of production: diversified and very changed - Rapid apply of new technology
- Diseases, need immediate interventions
- High competitiveness with imported products
- Serious lack of information for production direction
Expected output of TCP
- model for organization of monitoring system - Policy bulletins for policymakers
- Database for developing models serving to developing policies
Setting up a Farms Monitoring System
Farm Monitoring
System
Regular quantitative surveys (representative sample of farms) Quanlitative analyses (typology of farms) Understanding the dynamics of the farms
Prospects for Near Future
Finalize the methodology according to current needs of
Vietnamese authorities, objectives, and available resources
Viet Nam livestock farms monitoring system as pilot point in
the WAW global Initiative?
