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Participatory poverty monitoring in rural communities in Viet Nam 116 Agricultural extension services have limited budgets. Farmers, especially poor people in difficult areas, are enjoy benefits when they participate in agricultural extension services, such as subsidised attendance at agricultural extension trainings and discounts on the price of seeds and essential materials for demonstration models. However, a district agricultural extension unit has an annual budget of 30 - 50 million VND for training, modelling and communications. Allowances for agricultural extension staff at villages are low. In Luong Minh - Nghe An, Duc Huong - Ha Tinh, the allowance for agricultural extension staff is 50,000 VND/month, and 120,000 VND/month in Cu Hue - Dak Lak (Table 7.5), lower than local daily wages. Only two villages agreed to use the village fund to provide additional support to agricultural extension staff. The low allowance is one reason for the low effectiveness of the agricultural extension staff. TABLE 7.5. The network of agricultural extension staff at monitoring points, 2011 Commune Number Ethnic group Gender Monthly allowance Thuan Hoa 15 8 H’Mong, 3 Dao, 4 Tay 100% male 0.4 minimum wage Ban Lien 9 5 Tay, 4 H’Mong 100% male 400,000 VND Thanh Xuong 0 - - - Luong Minh 10 6 Thai, 4 Khmu 100% male 50,000 VND Duc Huong 8 100% Kinh 1 female, 7 male 50,000 VND Xy 6 100% Van Kieu 100% male 150,000 VND Cu Hue 7 100% Ede 3 female, 4 male 120,000 VND Phuoc Dai 5 4 Raglai, 1 Co Ho 1 female, 4 male 1,0 minimum wage Phuoc Thanh 5 100% Raglai 100% male 1,0 minimum wage Thuan Hoa 0 - - - SOURCE: Commune cadres. In Eakar district (Dak Lak), since the end of 2010, the district agricultural extension unit has encouraged village agricultural extension staff to conduct demonstrations with the direct technical support of the district unit, by advancing ten months of allowances (from 1.2 - 1.5 million VND). Twenty-eight of 34 villages registered for the model. Some successful models have improved the effectiveness of the agricultural extension staff, and raising their profile in the communities. In addition, some agricultural extension staff in Eakar also receive support to conduct fertilization service for cows and pigs (receiving trainings, certificate of “fertilization staff” and a set of equipment including a container and a fertilization gun worth 10 million VND) so that they have additional income and feel attached to the job. There are no agricultural extension funds at the monitoring points. Such funds, promoted by Decree 02/2010/ND - CP, are designed to attract sponsorship and voluntary donations from domestic and foreign organizations and individuals.
Five-year Synthesis Report Part 2: Challenges to Rural Poverty Reduction in Viet Nam 7.3. Suggestions for improvement of agricultural extension services Table 7.6 shows that the three proposals favoured by the people to improve agricultural extension services are “enhancing capacity and knowledge of agricultural extension staff”, “agricultural extension services should be provided on time to help people in need” and “increasing the support to poor people when participating in agricultural extension services.” The preference of “timeliness” by the people in monitoring points in ethnic minority mountainous areas suggest that the function of “advising, facilitating, working together with farmers” (besides the function of technology transfer) should be enhanced, including the role of the grassroots agricultural extension services network. 117 TABLE 7.6. People’s recommendations to improve local agricultural extension services, 2011 (%) Commune Improving the capacity and knowledge of agricultural extension staff The staff should be more detailed and supportive Renewing Renewing Timely support Increase the agricultural agricultural to support for extension content extension methodologies. people in need poor people when participating in agricultural extension services Thuan Hoa 82 0 18 25 68 46 Ban Lien 74 8 62 49 49 21 Thanh Xuong 75 42 38 42 54 50 Luong Minh 69 15 31 39 23 39 Duc Huong 80 23 50 21 30 40 Xy 58 15 38 15 75 75 Cu Hue 31 12 23 39 81 65 Phuoc Dai 35 6 24 29 71 41 Phuoc Thanh 43 26 30 9 70 61 Thuan Hoa 17 28 11 11 94 72 Average 62 19 36 28 60 51 SOURCE: Households interviews.
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PREFACE 1 7 In early 2007, Viet Nam
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