The impact of an adjusted cropping calendar on the welfare of rice farming households in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam

Alice Joan G. Ferrer, Le Ha Thanh, Nguyen Tuan Kiet, Pham Hong Chuong, Vu Thu Trang, Jinky C. Hopanda, Benedict Mark Carmelita, Sridhar Gummadi and Eisen Bernard Bernardo

Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022, vol. 73, issue C, 639-652

Abstract: The study assessed the impacts of an adjusted cropping calendar on the welfare of rice farming households in the Mekong River Delta (MRD) of Vietnam in the 2019/20 Winter–Spring (W-S) crop season. Some farmers in the study area practiced early planting as an adaptation strategy to avoid the risk of saline intrusion during the 2019–2020 El Niño. The study randomly surveyed 1,176 rice farmers in three MRD provinces, namely, Long An, Kien Giang, and Soc Trang, of which 412 were early planters and 764 were non-early planters. Propensity score matching was applied to explore the effects of early planting on the rice yield and rice farming income. Early planting during the 2019/20 W-S season produced (i) an increase in rice farming income of VND 22.8–24.6 million per farmer or VND 8.62–8.77 million per hectare; (ii) an increase in the annual rice farming income of VND 13.7–17.1 million per farmer or VND 3.2–4.3 million per hectare; and (iii) an increase in rice yield by 5.29–5.67 tons per farmer or 2.51–2.59 tons per hectare. The findings confirm that adjusting the rice cropping calendar as an adaptation strategy against salinity can improve rice farmers’ production and income.

Keywords: Early planting; Welfare; Farmer; Mekong River Delta; PSM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0313592621001880
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecanpo:v:73:y:2022:i:c:p:639-652

DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2021.12.018

Access Statistics for this article

Economic Analysis and Policy is currently edited by Clevo Wilson

More articles in Economic Analysis and Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().