Mangrove and Production risk in Aquaculture in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam

Utilizing survey data in aquaculture activities in 2014 from the Mekong river deltaVietnam, this paper aims to examine the impact of mangrove forests on profit and profit variability in extensive and semi-intensive aquaculture farms (mostly shrimp farms). The Just-Pope framework for a stochastic sho...

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Tác giả chính: Do Huu Luat
Đồng tác giả: Truong Dang Thuy
Định dạng: Conference Paper
Ngôn ngữ:English
Thông tin xuất bản: 2017
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http://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/56605
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spelling oai:localhost:UEH-566052017-12-20T09:26:48Z Mangrove and Production risk in Aquaculture in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam Do Huu Luat Truong Dang Thuy Mangrove forests Production risk Aquaculture Profit function Utilizing survey data in aquaculture activities in 2014 from the Mekong river deltaVietnam, this paper aims to examine the impact of mangrove forests on profit and profit variability in extensive and semi-intensive aquaculture farms (mostly shrimp farms). The Just-Pope framework for a stochastic short-run profit function is applied to examine the impacts of inputs on both the deterministic component and the stochastic component of profit. The most crucial characteristics of mangrove forests such as the area of mangrove forests in farm, the density of mangrove trees per 100 square meter, and the area of mangrove forests within 500, 1000, and 2000, are utilized in this paper. The main estimation method is the Maximum likelihood (ML) estimator for the log-likelihood function employed to investigate the relationship between mangrove forests and profit as well as its variability. Apart from the ML estimator, other estimation methods (including FGLS, Robust S.E, and SUR) are also employed to test robustness of the regression results. The results show robust evidences that mangrove forests have negative effect and variance-reducing effect on profit in extensive and semi-intensive aquaculture farms. From these results, it implies that when converting more mangrove into water surface area, farmers earn higher profit at higher risk, and that a risk-averse farmer will plant more mangrove forests in farm than the risk-neutral farmer. 2017-12-20T09:26:48Z 2017-12-20T09:26:48Z 2016 Conference Paper http://veam.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/116.-Do-Huu-Luat.pdf http://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/56605 en Proceedings of the 9th Vietnam Economists Annual Meeting Da Nang City, 11 – 12th August 2015 none Portable Document Format (PDF)
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topic Mangrove forests
Production risk
Aquaculture
Profit function
spellingShingle Mangrove forests
Production risk
Aquaculture
Profit function
Do Huu Luat
Mangrove and Production risk in Aquaculture in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
description Utilizing survey data in aquaculture activities in 2014 from the Mekong river deltaVietnam, this paper aims to examine the impact of mangrove forests on profit and profit variability in extensive and semi-intensive aquaculture farms (mostly shrimp farms). The Just-Pope framework for a stochastic short-run profit function is applied to examine the impacts of inputs on both the deterministic component and the stochastic component of profit. The most crucial characteristics of mangrove forests such as the area of mangrove forests in farm, the density of mangrove trees per 100 square meter, and the area of mangrove forests within 500, 1000, and 2000, are utilized in this paper. The main estimation method is the Maximum likelihood (ML) estimator for the log-likelihood function employed to investigate the relationship between mangrove forests and profit as well as its variability. Apart from the ML estimator, other estimation methods (including FGLS, Robust S.E, and SUR) are also employed to test robustness of the regression results. The results show robust evidences that mangrove forests have negative effect and variance-reducing effect on profit in extensive and semi-intensive aquaculture farms. From these results, it implies that when converting more mangrove into water surface area, farmers earn higher profit at higher risk, and that a risk-averse farmer will plant more mangrove forests in farm than the risk-neutral farmer.
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title_short Mangrove and Production risk in Aquaculture in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
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title_fullStr Mangrove and Production risk in Aquaculture in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed Mangrove and Production risk in Aquaculture in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
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