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, IPSARD

Guillaume Duteurtre, CIRAD

Rapid 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

Private investments (as well as public)

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)

Source : FaoStat Source : FaoStat

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 management

MARD: (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

- Producers

Kind of collected

information - Form of production

- Production scale

- Mode of production

- Market relationship

- Economic efficiency

- Reaction to policy

Means of

dissemination - Bulletins

- Research papers

- Conferences

- Media

Collect 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

mode of livestock production and marketing

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

Source : Hoang Vu Quang et al., 2011

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

3927

188

1

Production by themselves Breeding center Other producer

Source : Hoang Vu Quang et al., 2011

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

Needed information for monitoring the

dairy farm

Race

Milk productivity

Production unit cost

Marketing

Prevention/treatment of diseases

Utilization of feed

Investment

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 System

FAO 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?

Support such initiative in other agricultural sectors

THANK YOU !