INSTITUTE OF POLICY AND STRATEGY FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL POLICY ---------------------------------------------- CARD Project 030/06 VIE: Developing a strategy for enhancing the competitiveness of rural small and medium enterprises in the agro-food chain: the case of animal feed SMALL-MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN THE LIVESTOCK FEED SECTOR IN VIETNAM VOLUME I: Livestock feed production Pham Thi Lien Phuong1, Nguyen Thi Thinh1, Donna Brennan2, Sally Marsh2, Bui Hai Nguyen1 1 Center for Agricultural Policy, Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development, Hanoi 2 School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia Hanoi, April 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The origin of this study goes back to. | INSTITUTE OF POLICY AND STRATEGY FOR AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL POLICY CARD Project 030 06 VIE Developing a strategy for enhancing the competitiveness of rural small and medium enterprises in the agro-food chain the case of animal feed SMALL-MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN THE LIVESTOCK FEED SECTOR IN VIETNAM VOLUME I Livestock feed production Pham Thi Lien Phuong1 Nguyen Thi Thinh1 Donna Brennan2 Sally Marsh2 Bui Hai Nguyen1 1 Center for Agricultural Policy Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development Hanoi 2 School of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of Western Australia Hanoi April 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The origin of this study goes back to previous research on the livestock feed sector in Vietnam that has shown high costs and low productivity in the overall sector. However no previous study has looked at the differences between mills of different production scale mills by region and ownership types. Therefore previous solutions to enhance the competitiveness of feed mills especially small and medium enterprises are usually generalised rather then specified for each type of mill. This study has focused on specific mill types in the Vietnamese livestock feed sector with a particular focus on small and medium enterprises SMEs in different regions. This report provides a current overview of the Vietnamese livestock feed production sector. Besides outlining the environment and infrastructure within which feed mills are working an important part of the report was to provide information on how feed mills operate along their supply chain describing relationships with their material suppliers and output customers. Data was collected during mid-2008 using a survey of 62 feed mills situated throughout the country. Information collected included that concerning the production and business activities of the different sized feed mills their distribution channels and their technology levels. The focus of this .
