The interlinkage of the Vietnamese horticultural sector with the Chinese market: the case of watermelons

Fumie Takanashi

Chapter 7 in Global Production Networks and Rural Development, 2021, pp 122-139 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter explores how the emerging Chinese market has impacted the Vietnamese horticultural sector, which consists of scattered production by smallholders and a relatively primitive distribution system. We examine the watermelon sector as a case study, drawing on the results of field studies we conducted in 2011, 2013, and 2018 at several specific watermelon-producing sites in Vietnam. Vietnamese watermelons entered the Chinese market in around 2000, and demand led to production expanding. The Vietnamese side of the value chain was, and remains, dominated by small-scale producers and distributors. In the central region, production expanded into mountain areas through shifting cultivation. We found that the Vietnamese watermelon value chain is integrated with the Chinese market, which influences both the supply and demand sides of the watermelon industry in Vietnam. Additionally, we found that the northern region, which has become a consolidation spot for watermelons due to the increase in the volume of trade with China, has evolved into a distribution node for other agricultural products as well. As a result, the emerging cross-border watermelon trade influences not only the watermelon industry but also the entire agricultural product distribution system in Vietnam.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800883871/9781800883871.00011.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

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:elg:eechap:20596_7

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().