Factors influencing mango farmers’ adoption of VietGAP standards in the Mekong Delta

Abstract

This study aimed to examine factors influencing mango farmers’ adoption of VietGAP standards in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. Data used for this study were gathered from 110 mango growers, consisting of 49 VietGAP adopters and 61 VietGAP non-adopters in Hau Giang and Soc Trang Provinces. The logit model was pricipally employed to analyze the data. The findings showed that a household participating in farmers’ organizarion, acontacting frequence of farmer with extension worker and accessing to Internet is more likely to adopt VietGAP standards in mango production. Yet household’s head with higher level of education is unlikely to apply VietGAP standards.