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Final Report Final report project Developing productive and profitable smallholder beef enterprises in Central Vietnam project number LPS/2012/062 date published 2 October 2019 prepared by Assoc. Prof. Laurie Bonney co-authors/ Dr. Rowan Smith contributors/ Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Xuan Ba collaborators Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Huu Van Jeff Corfield approved by Anna Okella final report number FR2019-96 ISBN 978-1-925747-81-2 published by ACIAR GPO Box 1571 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia This publication is published by ACIAR ABN 34 864 955 427. Care is taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this publication. However ACIAR cannot accept responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information or opinions contained in the publication. You should make your own enquiries before making decisions concerning your interests. © Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) 2019 - This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from ACIAR, GPO Box 1571, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia, [email protected]. Final report: Developing productive and profitable smallholder beef enterprises in Central Vietnam Contents 1 Acknowledgments ....................................................................................5 2 Executive summary ..................................................................................6 3 Background ...............................................................................................8 4 Objectives ................................................................................................ 12 5 Methodology ........................................................................................... 13 5.1 Site selection ...................................................................................................................... 13 5.2 Objective 1 activities and methods .................................................................................... 14 5.3 Objective 2 activities and methods .................................................................................... 18 5.4 Objective 3 activities and methods .................................................................................... 22 6 Achievements against activities and outputs/milestones ................... 26 7 Key results and discussion ................................................................... 35 7.1 Objective 1: Develop more efficient smallholder cow-calf and cattle growing systems. ... 35 7.2 Objective 2: Develop stronger integration with markets for beef cattle producers in Central Vietnam. ................................................................................................................ 46 7.3 Objective 3: Identify and develop knowledge exchange and adoption pathways for expanding impacts within smallholder beef cattle enterprises........................................... 65 8 Impacts .................................................................................................... 82 8.1 Scientific impacts – now and in 5 years ............................................................................. 82 8.2 Capacity impacts – now and in 5 years ............................................................................. 83 8.3 Community impacts – now and in 5 years ......................................................................... 87 8.4 Communication and dissemination activities ..................................................................... 87 9 Conclusions and recommendations ..................................................... 91 9.1 Conclusions ....................................................................................................................... 91 9.2 Recommendations ............................................................................................................. 93 9.3 Recommendations for further research ............................................................................. 94 10 References .............................................................................................. 95 10.1 References cited in this report ........................................................................................... 95 10.2 List of project publications ................................................................................................. 99 Page ii Final report: Developing productive and profitable smallholder beef enterprises in Central Vietnam Figures Figure 1: Cattle numbers for selected Coastal Provinces from 2001 to 2011. (Source: General Statistical Office, 2012). ........................................................................................... 9 Figure 2: Number of beef cattle and annual live-weight production for Vietnam (Source: General Statistical Office, 2012). ........................................................................................... 9 Figure 3: The number of farmers planting forages in Ea Kar, Đắk Lắk (Khanh et al. 2006). 10 Figure 4 Body condition score of cows before and after calving in periods of feed shortage and feed availability in a) An Chan and b) Tây Giang. Error bars represent standard deviation of the mean. ......................................................................................................... 37 Figure 5: Porter's Five Forces Analysis of the Phú Yên/Bình Định to Đà Nẵng chain .......... 54 Figure 6: Porter's Five Forces Analysis of the Ea Kar to Buôn Ma Thuột chain ................... 54 Figure 7: Porter's Five Forces Analysis of the Đắk Lắk to HCMC chain .............................. 54 Figure 8: A typical VCA map for Đắk Lắk and Phú Yên to Bình Định to Đà Nẵng beef cattle chains (noting the dynamic and diverse nature of beef supply chains) ................................ 60 Figure 9: Retained revenue per kg of fattened beef cattle from Phú Yên and Bình Định to Đà Nẵng City (Unit: 000 VND/kg) ............................................................................................. 62 Figure 10: Recommended Best Practice Model Value Chain for Đà Nẵng and Buôn Ma Thuột .................................................................................................................................. 63 Figure 11: Relationship between adoption of new practices and generation of SOFs by Farmer Champions and other BBFs from Cat Trinh commune, Binh Dinh, in March 2013 (Red markers denote farmer champions and blue markers denote other BBFs). ................ 67 Figure 12: Percentage of surveyed Tây Giang SOFs who tried new forage and animal management practices and the percentage take-up of the same practices by study farmers from whom they scaled. ...................................................................................................... 68 Figure 13: Percentage of surveyed Cat Trinh SOFs who tried new forage and animal management practices and the percentage uptake of the same practices by Cat Trinh BBFs (BBFS) from whom they scaled out. .................................................................................... 68 Figure 14: Theory of Planned Behaviour (Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010) ..................................... 70 Figure 15: Using TPB factors to better align extension strategies with new technology introduction and scale-out challenges ................................................................................. 71 Figure 16: Schema of relationships between smallholder-identified issues affecting adoption of Taramba and suggested technical and extension delivery responses for use in future introduction activities in this region, based on learnings from this study. ............................. 73 Figure 17: Seven Step Cattle Club Development Model developed from Case Study 3 ...... 75 Figure 18: Preliminary 3-dimensional layer analysis with ‘R’ statistics and MuxViz ............. 77 Figure 19: Multi-stakeholder platform or learning alliance to support adoption and scale-out ........................................................................................................................................... 79 Page 3 Final report: Developing productive and profitable smallholder beef enterprises in Central Vietnam Tables Table 1 Chemical composition of feed used in demonstrations ........................................... 17 Table 2 Mean (±SD) population, labour, and cultivated land of surveyed households of Tây Giang and An Chan commune. ........................................................................................... 35 Table 3 Mean cattle number (±SD) per household and age structure of the cattle herd in Tây Giang and An Chan communes .......................................................................................... 36 Table 4 Mean (± SD) reproductive parameters of cows in householder in Tây Giang and An Chan commune ................................................................................................................... 38 Table 5 Mean live weight (kg) of cows in response to low and high levels of concentrate supplementation over 4 months post-partum ...................................................................... 39 Table 6 Mean body condition score (BCS) of cows in response to low and high levels of concentrate supplementation over 4 months post-partum ................................................... 39 Table 7 Mean milk yield of cows (g/day/cow) in response to low and high levels of concentrate supplementation over 4 months post-partum
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