Livelihood assets and solutions for improving households’ income in new rural areas of Hau Giang Province

• Main Authors: Võ Hồng Tú, Nguyễn Thuỳ Trang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 2021-09-01
• Series: Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội
• Subjects: nông thôn mới; sinh kế; sinh kế bền vững
• Online Access: https://journalofscience.ou.edu.vn/index.php/soci-vi/article/view/1899

New rural construction is one of the key programs with the goal of comprehensive development of rural areas. Hau Giang is the leading province in the Mekong Delta in implementing the new rural program. Therefore, the study carried out interviews of 458 observations in Hau Giang to find out the current status of rural livelihood assets and compare the livelihood assets among three groups of communes with different levels of the complement of New Rural criteria. The research results show that, in general, the five livelihood assets of households in the well-performed group of communes are much better than the remaining two groups. The multiple regression shows four factors affecting the households’ income significantly and positively, including farm size, credit access, family size, and the well-performed communes.