CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY: COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS IN CULTIVATION OF THE SEEDLESS PERSIMMON IN HA GIANG

Nguyễn Trung Dũng; Nguyễn Tuấn Anh

doi:10.34238/tnu-jst.5452

CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY: COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS IN CULTIVATION OF THE SEEDLESS PERSIMMON IN HA GIANG

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Received: 12/01/22 Revised: 16/02/22 Published: 24/02/22

Authors

1. Nguyen Trung Dung , Thuyloi University
2. Nguyen Tuan Anh, Vietnam Academy for Water Resources

Abstract

Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) helps ensure food and nutrition security and increasing food demands under a changing climate. This article reviews the application of CSA practices to seedless persimmon in Na Khe commune, a poor mountain community in Ha Giang province, since 2017. The Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) should, as far as possible, take into account the full potential of private and government intervention, the social and environmental benefits and/or the costs of the CSA practices. The research method is an analysis and calculation method based on the actual data of the project in two trial years 2016-2017. The internal rate of return is as follows: financial analysis is only 7.4%, economic 12.4%, social 14% and environmental 16.6%. It is very clear that CSA projects should not only be analyzed economically and financially, but should also be comprehensively considered under social and ecological aspects in order to prioritize projects with CSA techniques and to effectively support sustainable agricultural development.

Keywords

CSA; Climate-Smart Agriculture; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Persimmon; Ha Giang

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