The relationship between the agricultural trade and productivity in Vietnam case

Abstract

This thesis tries to find out whether trade has an effect on agricultural productivity in Vietnam case. There are two models to estimate relationship between trade and productivity including national-level model and farm-level model. The time series data of nine agricultural commodities, which is taken from FAOSTAT, is used in national-level model. Farm-level model uses cross section data from VARHS 2010 including 1449 farm household in nine provinces. In both models, yield refers as agricultural productivity. The both models support for a strong positive relationship between trade and yield. The result also indicates that the land, irrigation, human capital, cost of production might be necessary for improve productivity.