Laboratory of Agricultural Economics,Division of International Agricultural Resource Economics and Business Administration,Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences,Kyushu University
Laboratory of Agricultural Economics,Division of International Agricultural Resource Economics and Business Administration,Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,Faculty of Agriculture,Kyushu University
Milk processing factories located in the South East of Vietna use mostly imported materials at present to process milk and dairy produces milk and dairy products. The study was thus conducted to unravel the underlying situatioin of dairy cattle raising in the region. The results of the study are based on the original data collected from 80 farm households in Ho Chi Minh and Binh Duong provinces. Descriptive statistics is used as the principal method of data analysis. The survey reveals that dairy farm is quite small in size with an average of almost 6 heads; of which most is the crossbreed of 3/4 HF blod. Total production costs are found to very by some breeds and dairy sizes. Farmers can benefit from raising cows with an averafge net return of almost 3 million VND per milking cow. Poor situation of breeding and veterinary services, shortage of good breeds, lack of capital and technical knowledge are the most important obstacles for expanding the dairy farming.