文档介绍：J.?Fac.?Agr.,?Kyushu?Univ.,?49?(1),?179-193?(2004)? Dairy?Production?in?Vretnaln:?Opportunities?and?Challenges? CHU?Thi?Kim?Loan*,?Hiroshi?YOKOGAWA? and?Tsunemasa?KAWAGUCHI? Laboratory?of?Agricultural?Economics,?Division?of?International?Agricultural?Resource?Economics?and? Business?Administration,?Department?of?Agricultural?and?Resource?Economics,? Faculty?of?Agriculture,?Kyushu?University,?Fukuoka?812-8581?(Received?October?31,?2003?aud?accepted?November?14,?2003)? Dairy?cow?raising?in?Vietnam?has?been?assessed?as?a?key?occupation?to?meet?the?society's? demand?for?high?nutritive?food?products?and?to?improve?cash?e?for?farmers.?The?overall? objective?of?the?study?thus?is?to?examine?the?development?of?dairy?production?in?the?country? over?last?years,?and?then?to?point?out?its?opportunities?and?challenges?to?have?a?good?strategy? for?next?development.?The?research?results?are?mostly?based?on?secondary?data?collected?from? different?sources.?Descriptive?statistical?analysis?is?used?as?the?principal?methods?of?the?study.? The?research?results?show?that?the?number?of?dairy?cows?and?milk?yield?in?Vietnam?have? trended?upwards?during?the?last?decade,?but?they?still?seem?to?be?too?pared?with?those? in?neighbor?countries.?Although?the?level?of?milk?consumption?in?Vietnam?is?low,?the?national? dairy?production?at?present?meets?only?nearly?12percent?of?the?total?domestic?consumption.? There?are?some?favorable?factors?which?give?opportunities?for?the?development?of?Vietnamese? dairy?sub-sector,?.?Iarge?market?potential,?encouraging?policies?of?the?government,?abundant? labor?force,?benefits?of?dairy?raising?and?achieved?progresses?in?crossbred?activities.?However,?it? has?faced?with?a?lot?of?challenges?such?as?a?lack?of?good?cow?breeds,?Iimited?level?of?farm? management,?poor?status?of?veterinary?services,?high?price?of?feeds?and?environmental?pollution.? INTRODUCTION? Vietnam?is?a?tropical?country?located?in?South-East?Asia.?It?is?bounded?to?the?east?by? the?South?China?Se