The objective of this study was to determine the enteric methane emission of different beef categories and develop scenarios to improve animal performance as well as reduce methane emission per live weight gain from extensive cattle production system in Quang Ngai province. Methane emission was estimated according to tier 3 of IPCC (2006) using RUMINAT Model. Results showed that average enteric methane emission factor was 20.9 kg/animal/year and enteric methane efficiency was 16.42 kg CO2eq/kg weight gain. Results of scenarios indicated that increasing dietary concentrate levels from 27% to 37% (cows and cattle > 1 year old) resulted in increased daily weight gain from 22 to 49% with reduced enteric methane efficiency from 20 to 27% compared with the current cattle keeping practice (17% for cow and cattle > 1 year old). Using forage mixture of elephant grass, rice straw and ruzzi grass or elephant grass, maize foliage and rice straw resulted in increased daily weight gain and reduced enteric methane efficiency compared to using a mixture of elephant grass and rice straw.

This study was carried out to evaluate the apparent nutrient digestibility of diets containing full-fat soybean and soybean extraction meal for Guinea fowls at 8 and 10 weeks of age. The experimental design was factorial with 2 factors and 3 replicates. The first factor was the 2 protein sources including full-fat soybean and soybean extraction meal. The second one was dietary crude protein (CP) with levels of 16, 18, 20 and 22%. The results showed that most apparent nutrient digestibilities and nitrogen retention of the diets with soybean meal were similar to those of soybean extraction meal (p

Termite mushroom samples used for isolation of Termitomyces clypeatus were collected in An Linh Ward, Phu Giao District and Dinh Hiep Ward, Dau Tieng District Binh Duong Province. The tissue culture method of fruiting body was used to produce pure seed in vitro. T. clypeatus  isolation  process was carried out on 5 different media, the results showed that the best medium for growing of Termite mushroom was MT5 with glucose as a carbon source and salts of sulphate, photphate. Termite mushroom was slowly growingon the basic culture media with added chloramphenicol (200 mg/l). Based on morphological characteristics associated with DNA sequencing of ITS1, 5.8S, ITS2, 28S regions, results of comparing these DNA sequences with the known ones on GenBank (NCBI) showed that the new isolate adopted 99% similarity with known T. clypeatus strains. Combination with the morphological characteristics could be finally defined that the isolated Termite mushroom in this study was T. clypeatus.

Forty four endophytic bacterial strains were isolated from samples of Mimosa pudica L. collected in Tra Vinh province using PDA medium (pH=6.5). Almost bacterial cells had rod shape, Gram negative, motile. All strains were able to fix nitrogen, synthesize IAA and could solubilize insoluble phosphate. The strain TH4 had the highest ability of N-fixing with 0.68 µg/mL, while strain RH5 gave highest amount of IAA at 51.8 µg/mL and strain LH7 had the highest ability of solubilize insoluble phosphate with E%=170. Sixteen strains showed antibacterial activity against Aeromonas hydrophila, twelve strains could against Escherichia coli and seven strains showed antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus, eight strains showed antibacterial activity against Aeromonas hydrophila and Escherichia coli, four strains showed antibacterial activity against Aeromonas hydrophila and Staphylococcus aureus and one strain showed antibacterial activity against Aeromonas hydrophila, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Comparing the nucleotide sequences of 16S ribosomal RNA with the gene bank database two isolates were indentified to the species level. The strain NH11 was determined as Klebsiella pneumoniaestrain ZJ-02 (KF974478.1) (with 98% homogeneous level) and the strain TH10 had 99% homogeneous level, similarity to Bacillus megaterium strain LP35_L05 (KM350269.1).

In this study, two-step enzymatic hydrolysis of purple sweet potato peel (as a waste product) was optimized. The effects of time, enzyme dose and temperature (starch liquefaction and saccharification) on soluble solid content (Brix degree) and glucose concentration were investigated. The Box-Behnken design was applied and a total of 18 treatments were generated for each step. For the liquefaction step, an ANOVA test showed the quadratic model obtained to be significant (p

Aloe vera is a medicinal herb, it contains many substances which have anti-microbial activity. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of solvent to the extraction somes compouds which have biological activity from the Aloe vera leaves. First, experiments were carried out by changing the ethanol concentration (0, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 và 96%). Second, the ratios of material and solvent (1:0.5; 1:1; 1:1.5; 1:2; 1:2.5; 1:3; 1:3.5 and 1:4) were studied. The results showed that, using water or ethanol 96% alone, the extraction efficiency of the 3 substances (anthraquinone, saponins, and salicylic acid) was low. However, combining two solvents improved the effectively extraction. In particular, the solution of ethanol 50% showed the most effective to extract all the three components. Moreover, the highest concentration of these substances were obtained by using the ratio 1:2 of the raw materials and solvents.

The study was performed on surveys the effect of harvest times on tuber morphological characteristics, tuber yield, anthocyanin content and DPPH scavenging activity of purple sweet potato tubers (Japanese cultivar) was evaluated. The studied site located in Thanh Loi, Binh Tan, Vinh Long and experiment was conducted from September 2014 to March 2015. The harvest times for quality evaluation were from 120 to 176 days after transplanting with 7- day intervals. Results showed that the yield was over 20 tons/ha at 127-day period, and the highest yield was observed at 148-day period with 32.6 tons/ha. The diameter and hardness of tubers increased over the harvest time. The soluble solid contents were fluctuated from 29.3 to 31.8%. The highest anthocyanin contents in tubers were found at 127 days and 141 days after transplanting (>100 mg CGE/100 g dry sample). Anti-oxidant effects of the tuber root extracts reached over 70% at four harvest times from 120 to 141 days after transplanting.

This study was aimed to compare technical and economic efficiency of four brackish water land-based shrimp farming systems in My Xuyen district, Soc Trang province, the coastal zone of the Mekong delta. Household surveys were conducted with a total of 113 farmers practicing the production of shrimp rotated with rice (i.e. Penaeus monodon or Litopenaeus vannamei) and shrimp mono-culture (Litopenaeus vannamei). Results showed that with vannamei shrimp farmers could practice two or three crops continuously in rotation with rice, compared to only one crop with monodon shrimp, due to a shorter production cycle. With higher material input level, vannamei shrimp yielded higher and gave higher income than monodon shrimp did. Shrimp culture (in the dry season) in rotation with rice (in the wet season) had lower income than shrimp monoculture. In short-term, farmers earned high income with vanamei shrimp culture, particularly with the mono-culture form of three crops per year. However, long-term environmental sustainability and economic risks of vanamei shrimp culture at farming intensity levels is still challengings.

Aims of this study were to investigate mycorrhizal infection and to identify numbers of spores formed in roots and soils from rhizosphere of maize (Zea maize L.), sesame (Sesamum indicum) and chili (Capsicum annuum) grown on alluvial soils at CanTho city. Four rhizosphere soils and four root samples of each upland crop were collected to investigate the percentage of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) colonization (%) and identify AM spores using the wet sieving and decant method. Results showed that roots of maize, sesame and chili had the AM colonization. The percentage of root colonization and spores in the rhizosphere of maize were significantly higher than those of sesame and chili samples. Four genera of AM fungi were assigned to Acaulospora, Entrophosphora, Glomus, Gigaspora and three unidentified AM fungi. These four genera of AM fungi presented in the rhizosphere of maize. Specially, Acaulospora and Glomous were found in the rhizospheres of maize, sesame and chili.

Biopesticide from leaf extracts known to play an important role in order to reduce the negative effect of chemical pesticides, has been developed recently. Many previous studies indicated the applicability of Lantana camara L. as a biopesticide in controlling insect pests as well as a medical plant due to its biomedical activity. In this study, alkaloid compounds were determined in the leaf extract of Lantana camara L. by using Mayer and Dragendorff methods. The mortality induced by those compounds was recorded on Plutella xylostella second larval instars when using 25% and 30% leaf extract concentrations by spraying method and gave significant difference compared to the control (P=0.0000). Moreover, antifeedant activity of aqueous rude extracts of L. camara was evaluated against diamondback moth using a leaf-disc choice test and no-choice leaf test. Plutella xylostella feedding activity was significantly reduced almost 90% when using 30% leaf extract concentration.

Black tiger shrimp is one of the main target species of Ca Mau province. The study was conducted from May to December 2014. The interview method was applied directly on 45 households of intensive tiger shrimp systems in Dam Doi, Phu Tan districts and Ca Mau City of Ca Mau province in order to evaluate the effectiveness of technical, financial and advantages and disadvantages of the model. Results of the survey showed that the average pond area of 0.27 ha/pond, the average of total pellet feeds were supplied about 6.656±2.302 kg/ha. Shrimp seeds were stocked at average density of 27.9±4.85 individuals/m2 andmostly originating from Central region of Vietnam. The average of yield and profit of intensive tiger shrimp system were 5.246±1.401 kg/ha/crop and 551±342 million VND/ha/crop, respectively. Intensive tiger shrimp system currently faces many difficulties, such as longer culture period, the increase in the feed price, diseases and high medicine prices.

This study aimed to evaluate the status and factors affecting average yield and profit of Clarias hybrid farming in the Mekong Delta. The survey was conducted from August to December 2015 by interviewing 150 fish farmers in five provinces An Giang, Tra Vinh, Vinh Long, Can Tho, and Hau Giang. Hybrid catfish in the region has been cultured at a small scale with average culture area of 1,106±1,130 m2. Average stocking density was 58±21 individuals/m2. Survival rate after three to four months of culture reached 83.4±5.9% and yield obtained 140.7±44.0 tons/ha/crop. Results based on linear model and multivariate linear model analyses showed that fish yields were predicted by stocking density, harvest size, initial fingerling size, feed conversion ratio (FCR), and survival rate (p

Applying biofloc techniques at different C:N ratios in culture tilapia was done in order to determine the appropriate C:N rate for better fish growth performance. The experiment was conducted with completely randomized design including five treatments of different C:N ratios (10, 15, 20, 15 and control treatment). Each treatment was triplicated. The mono-sex tilapia (8.43 g, 7.83 cm) were stocked at 40 fish/m3 in composite tanks (0.5 m3) with water salinity of 10‰. After 6 months of culture, the best fish growth performance was found in treatments of C:N=15 (282,8 g/fish and 1,37 %/day) and C:N=20 (267,9 g/fish and 1,36%/day). Fish production in treatments of C:N=15 (8.56 kg/m3) and C:N=20 (9.01 kg/m3) was significantly higher than that of control treatment. Moreover, the lowest FCR was found in treatments of C:N=20 (1.48) and C:N=15 (1.58). The survival rate was above 80% in treatment of C:N=20 and C:N=15. Fish sensory quality was not of significant difference among treatments.

This research was conducted to develop a duplex PCR assay that could simultaneously detect Streptococcus agalactiae and Streptococcus iniae, two causative agents of Streptococcosis on both of freshwater and brackishwater fish. The duplex-PCR amplified partial lactate oxidase (lctO) and 16s rRNA genes of S. iniae and S. agalactiae at 870 bp and 220 bp, respectively. Results showed that (i) the PCR reaction consists of the following components 1 X PCR buffer; 2 mM MgCl2; 250 µM dNTPs; 10 pm F1 and IMOD primers; 5 pm LOX-1 and LOX-2 primers; 1,0 U Taq polymerase, 1 μl S. agalactiae extracted DNA; 1 μl S. iniae extracted DNA, total reaction volume of 25 µl and (ii) the PCR cycle consists of 95oC for 5 min, followed by 35 cycles of 95oC for 1 min, 57oC for 1 min, 72oC for 1 min, and a final elongate step at 72oC for 7 min. The detection limits of the duplex PCR were in the range of 100 cfu/ml and 103 cfu/ml for S. agalactiae and S. iniae, respectively. The duplex PCR did not produce any specific amplification products when tested against Edwardsiella ictaluri, Aeromonas hydrophila, Vibrio harveyi và Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

Applying biofloc techniques in rearing tilapia at different salinities was done in order to determine the appropriate salinities and culture systems for the better growth performance. The experiment was conducted with completely randomized design comprising five salinities (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 ppt) combined with biofloc (adding carbohydrates at a ratio of C:N = 20:1) and without biofloc. Each treatment was triplicated. The mono-sex tilapia (1.38 g and 4.4cm) were stocked in composite tanks (0.5 m3) at the density of 40 fish/m3. After 7 months of culture, the environmental parameters such as temperature, pH, TAN and nitrite were in the suitable range for fish development. Besides, TAN levels in the biofloc applied treatments were significantly lower than those in treatments without biofloc (p

Applying teaching methods effectively requires teachers’ initiative and creativity in their teaching process. The article discusses the application of WebQuest, a teaching method, on teaching Literature. The method is applied to teach medieval literature for students of Grade 11 in a high school in Vietnam. Then many kinds of WebQuest exercises which are suitable for Vietnamese students would be proposed. The results of the research shows that WebQuest stimulates the students’ self-learning and studying interest.

The objective of the study aimed to analyze the factors impacting on academic performance of undergraduate freshmen or sophomores in Can Tho University of Technology (CTUT). The main analysis methods of this study was Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). The data of the study were collected from 561 undergraduate freshmen or sophomores in CTUT. Research results  indicated two factors that influenced positively  the academic performance of students was the  factor of students themselves  and the factor of  lecturer capacity. In particular, the factors that belonged to the students included knowledge gained after learning, motivation of learning, self-motivation of undergraduate freshmen or sophomores affecting the academic results higher than factors  to the lecturers capacity.

The concept of the logarithm is mathematical knowledge formed from real situations and it has many practical applications. However, the current teaching methodology only focuses on providing knowledgebut is not concerned about its practical significance. As a result, students do not see the applications of this concept. To help the students to approach the real problems when they form the concept of the logarithm, we carry out a strategy for teaching this concept of the logarithm by teaching in modelling.

During the administration of President Sucarno, Indonesia society, economy and politics faced a profound crisis. Under increasing pressure of Indonesian military, President Sucarno had to resign and lost his power to Minister Suharto. After having the control of government, President Suharto declared "new order" in Indonesia (1967-1998). In this research, we focus on two main contents which are “half -reforms” in the economy and politics of the Suharto dictatorship shown by the "new order" model.

Pedagogy Schools in the Resistance Base shows the strategy vision of Vietnamese Communist Party, and Uncle Ho to education and training within the achievements of developing and defending the Father Land. Teaching and Learning's contents of the schools were based on Ho Chi Minh's thought as a guidance for all activities. Pedagogy students were educated to work for revolution’s achievements and to sacrifice for Father Land defense. Activities of pedagogy schools in the revolutionaty region were comprehensive characters and suitable for current reforming requirements. Although there were hearvy bombing and large number of people were killed daily, but the revolutionary ideal was kept passionate in each teacher and student.

Based on the data from the face-to-face interviews of 90 rural households in three communes in which there have had different levels of completion of New Rural Program. The study showed that the households’ perception toward the program was quite good. By applying dichotomous choice contingent valuation method, the study indicated that the households were willing to pay or contribute 10.283 VND in case of the model without explanatory variables (model 1) and 10.936 VND in case of the model with explanatory variables (model 2). The households in communes ranked as middle and low levels of completion of the New Rural Program had higher willingness to pay. The female group had higher willingness to pay than those of male group and those who were recognised as cultural households[1] had higher willingness to pay than those who belonged to unrecognised group. The study suggested that local government could collect about 263 thousand VND within two years per household. However, in order to collect efficienntly and harmoniously, those who were not recognised as cultural households and male group, should be paid more attention during fund campaigns.

In Viet Nam, the term “Political and ideological education” has been widely used in the documents of the Communist Party of Viet Nam and in the documents, books in various fields. However, up to now, the concept of political and ideological education in Viet Nam has not been well defined. The article initially clarified the term “Political and ideological education” in order to create preconditions for further studies related to the work of political and ideological education.

This research was conducted out to evaluate the status of using English of the local travel service providers in Duong Dong town, Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang province by directly interviewing 120 local travel service providers including the local food providers, the local shopping providers, the local transportation providers and foreign tourists within 5 days from 25 to 29 January 2016. The result showed that the current ability of using English of the local travel service providers was quite low: only 74,2% of the food service providers, 53,3% of shopping providers and 20% of transporters used to participate in English courses. The percentage of people who had English certificates was was low, with only 4,6% of the food service providers who used to live in English speaking countries and 9,1% of taxi drivers having certificates of level A in English (Vietnamese standards evaluation system). Local providers’ ability to communicate in English was not high and not equal between groups. The highest percent was found in the food service providers, namely 56.7%. While the transporters demonstrated the lowest ability (only 23%) to use English, they were thought the friendliest ones by the foreigners.

In this paper, we studied the artistic time in patriotic short stories in urban areas in Southern Vietnam between 1965 and 1975. The artistic time was not only an essential part of literary works but also a valuable artistic signal. Most writers chose present time as the point of time for their works. The incline in applying inverted- channel time and psychological time was also an outstanding feature. These features contributed to the success of this group of short stories.

Service quality plays an important role in restaurant business in particular and service industry in general. For theoretical and experimemtal aspects, service quality has a positive relationship with customer’s satisfaction and loyalty. However, there were not many published researches for factors affecting service quality in restaurant realm in the past time. The main purpose of this study is to analyze factors that affecting restaurant service quality, thereby, it helps stakeholders make suitable administrative decisions. The research was conducted for a case inNinh Kieu District, Can Tho City. The results of study expressed responses of 160 respondents through methods of Descriptive Statistics, One-way-ANOVA, Scale Reliability, Exploratory Factors, and Multiple-item Liner Regression Analysis. There were six factors that ffecting restaurant service quality, and they were ranked in a decrease order as follows: “assurance”, “dish”, “reliability”, “server”, “safety and hygience conditions”, “restaurant campus, parking lot, and employee’s dress”.

Tran Nguyen Dan (1325-1390) was a patriot intellectual, a typical political activist, a great personality, a devoted man who always took care of the interests of the people. Throughout his life, he always encouraged and supported the development of Vietnamese Confucian education. He considered "Trung, Hiếu" as moral standards for the comtemporary ideal person. The article concentrates on discussing Tran Nguyen Dan’s opinions on education, civil service examination and the supports for talented people in order to assert his contributions to Tran dynasty’s ideology and literature.

Structural Equation Modeling was used in the study to test relationship between perception on destination and experience of visitors who had visited  the ecotourism garden in Phong Dien District, Can Tho city. Research data were collected from 200 visitors who had visited and experienced the services at the ecotourism garden in Phong Dien District. The research results identified that there was an existence of the relationship between perception on destination and experience of tourists traveling to the ecotourism garden. As a result, the two most important factors were the experience of thinking and actions, destination management and entertainment activities.

The two most typical motifs in the work Lieu trai chi di by Bo Tung Linh are counted as subjects turned into people and people turned into subjects. If the motifs are shone via a few mythological studies, their value will be indicated by differently various dimensions. The motifs in Lieu trai chi di made their appearance based on the inheritance of profound and legendary thinking of the primitive human, from the previous literary genres such as myths, fairy tale and so on According to the legacy, Bo Tung Linh blows into the motifs a fresh breath in the early modern era and shows out the progress in the life reflecting art. The writer knitted two sides of reality and imagination to create the motifs for the work of art precisely reflecting the life twinklingly and magically.

The study was surveyed with 224 of 385 Alumni of Department of Library and Information Management/ Information Studies (from June 2015 to May 2016) to examine how necessary our curiculum is, what alumni’hard skills and soft skills are required; and how high their proficiency in English and ICT is needed in order to participate in the labor market. The results showed that most of the fundamental and specialized subjects of LIM (Library and Information Management) programs are indispensable. Whether LIM Alumni work in the information area or not, our curirculum is likely to meet the needs of employers and the society. However, there are some things that need to be improved or updated to make our curiculum more effective Therefore, recommended solutions to enhance graduates’ employment are suggested.

"Strategic Hamlet" is the national policy of the US and the Republic of Vietnam in the process of implementing the strategy of "Special war" (1961-1965) in the South of Vietnam including Vinh Long. In Vinh Long, this plan was implemented on a large scale, with many dangerous plot to destroy the revolutionary forces. In 1962-1963, under the leadership of the Workers Party of Vietnam, the military and the people's uprising here  smashed  "strategic hamlets" contributing to defeating  the strategy "Special war" of the US and the Saigon government.

This study is aimed to analyze factors affecting scientific research capacity of lecturers in public colleges based on a survey of 125 faculty members at public colleges in Can Tho city. The methods of Cronbach's Alpha test, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and multiple regression were used in the study. The results showed that factors affecting research capacity of faculty members included: work environment, awareness, personal competence, motivation, age and expertise field of lecturers. Of which, work environment and awareness had the greatest influence on scientific research capacity of lecturers.

This study was conducted to determine the factors affecting the demand on domestic tourism of office staff at Can Tho city. Factor analysis and linear regression were used. The study results showed that two groups of factors having a positive impact on tourism demand were the factor of random and socio-cultural factor, while the cost factor has negatively affected the demand on domestic tourism of office staff. Based on these results, some policy recommendations were proposed for tourism enterprises in Can Tho in shaping strategies to promote demand on domestic tourism of office staff.

The objective of this study was to analyze production efficiency of the poor and the non-poor rice-farming households in An Giang province. Primary data were collected by direct interviews with 250 households, of which 70 were the poor. Methods of descriptive statistics and data envelopment analysis (DEA) were used to estimate technical efficiency (TE), allocative efficiency (AE) and cost efficiency (CE). The study results showed that there were differences in the basic characteristics of the two rice-farming groups. The poor rice farmers’ AE and CE were at average level, while their TE was at good level.

The study is aimed to examine factors that affect the level of outsourcing of companies in Can Tho city. The results of linear regression analysis identified that vendor relationship and benefits of outsourcing had a positive influence on the level of outsourcing for all cases of outsourcing services. In addition, the findings also indicated that risks of outsourcing had a significant effect on the level of outsourcing for only industrial hygiene outsourcing service. Furthermore, the size of company and company operating times had a significant influence on the level of outsourcing of equipment maintenance outsourcing service.

This study is aimed to determine factors affecting the participation in ecological garden tourism activities of households in Phong Dien district, Can Tho city. Descriptive statistics, medium, Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient and Exploratory Factor Analysis methods were used. The study results showed that five factors affected the participation of households including: (i) local policies, (ii) natural environment and social capital, (iii) social culture, (iv) local resources, and (v) economic benefits. Some recommendations were proposed to enhance the participation of families in ecological garden tourism activities.

The paper described in details the process of stochastic frontier analysis to measure resource use efficiency. This method of measurement is considered as the promising way that producers can use to calculate their resource use efficiency under the context of limited resources due to the pressure and demand of development process. Resource use efficiency is defined as the ratio of possible minimum amount of a certain input to its observed amount, keeping other inputs and output constant. Hence, such efficiency reflects the ability to reduce a certain input. Based on the dataset of 199 rice farmers collected in 2014 and the introduced method of measurement, the results showed that labor use efficiency was about 83.82%, 25.69% for capital, 71.33% for the case of nitrogen fertilizer and 81.74% for phosphorous and potash fertilizer. Based on these resource efficiency values, producers could decide the optimal levels of inputs required for production without compromising output level.

The paper is aimed to determine the effectiveness of public investment through bidding of onvester in Bac Lieu province. The theory of asymmetric (Akerlof, 1970) was used in developing research hypotheses. The secondary data from 432 bidding packages of public investors in Bac Lieu province were used in a multiple regression model. The results indicated that the discount rate (RR) was affected positively by the number of participating bidders (N), funds allocated for bid packages (C), owner (O), and the total investment (TI). On the other hand, RR was affected negatively by   the bidding results approver (D) and the duration of the contract (CT), but not the type of work (GP). Policy implications and legal framework were proposed to improve the efficiency of bidding activities and public investment management.

The research is focused on analyzing the business situation of Minh Phu Hau Giang Seafood Joint Stock Company from 2013 to 2015. It first was an analysis of the company’s inside and outside environments in order to find out its strengths (S) and weaknesses (W) and to identify opportunities (O) and threats (T) affecting its business operations. The primary and secondary data together with the analytical method of SWOTwere used to form strategic groups SO, ST, WO, and WT. Through the quantitative strategic planning matrix (QSPM), some strategies toward 2020 were formulated for Minh Phu Hau Giang to reach the aims of expansion, development and becoming proactive in the market with increasingly severe competitions.

Solutions to mobilizing community resources are requested in the process of new rural construction in each commune and locality. The study conducted at four pilot new rural communes of Tien Giang province was aimed to investigate the mobilization of community resources in the process of constructing the new rural model in the studied areas, including advantages and difficulties in the mobilizing process as foundations of solutions proposed to enhance such the process. Descriptive statistical and comparing methods were used to assess the status of community resources mobilization in recent years based on a survey of 120 households and 40 local officials in the commune studied. The results showed that money, property, labor and suggestions from local people are major resources from the community to be mobilized to construct new rural areas.

Safe vegetables, which provide essential nutrients and ensuring food safety in consumption, are in high demand now and in the future. However, safe vegetables have not been widely produced inCan Tho city. Based on a survey of 129 vegetable farmers in Can Tho city. The results showed that low levels of engagement in safe vegetable production was due to (1) low and unstable market demands, (2) farmers’ limited capacity in production and shifting to safe vegetable production, (3) low farmers’ awareness of long-runeconomic and social benefits from safe vegetable production. To enhance farmers’ engagement in safe vegetable production, it needed to (1) form farmers - businesses links and (2) develop and expand farmers - farmers linkages in forms of safe vegetable producing groups/cooperatives.

Over five-year implementation of the New Rural Program, the infrastructure and socio-economic conditions of Vietnam in general and Hau Giang province in particular have been improved significantly. However, specific impacts of the program on households’ income was not quantified in previous studies. The study was conducted to estimate such impacts providing policy makers with evidences for cost-benefit analysis of the program. Based on the data from structured interviews of 90 rural households in three communes with different performance levels of New Rural Program, the study showed that the impacts of the New Rural Program on households’ income in Hau Giang province were significant. Through propensity score matching method, the study indicated that incomes of households attending New Rural Program increased by 8,320,000 VND/member/year at the significant level of 5% based on nearest neighboring matching and by 6,570,000 VND/member/year based on radius matching at the significant level of 10%.

The study is aimed to investigate the factors that influence the intentions to study abroad of students in different majors of Economics in Can Tho University. Using a survey questionnaire and convenient sampling method, the research data was collected from a survey of 271 undergraduates sampled conveniently (from first year to fourth year) of 11 majors. Descriptive analyses and exploratory factor analyses were used. The results identified seven factors impacting on students’ intention to study abroad including: (1) cultural capital, (2) information capital, (3) achievement motivation, (4) perceived social pressures, (5) personal traits, (6) financial capital, and (7) interest in studying abroad. The implications of this study were expected to significantly contributing to the improvement of international education and cooperation programs in Can Tho University.

It is very necessary to link production with markets in order to increase added values in the Phu Tan sticky rice value chain. This study was undertaken in the Phu Tan district, An Giang province in 2014-2015 to improve Phu Tan sticky rice value chain serving sticky rice production planning in An Giang province. Participatory and value chain approaches were applied using key informant panel, focus group discussion and individual interviews. The results showed that there was an amount of safe and clean Phu Tan sticky rice produced according to 1M5Rs technique, which reduced production costs while increased farmers’ revenue. There were two Phu Tan sticky rice consumption channels including domestic and export where the latter shared 90% of total quantity. The profit, as well as actors involved, of the export channel was higher than that of the domestic one. Net added value of sticky rice with 1M5Rs was higher than that of sticky rice produced traditionally. Amongst actors involved in the chain, farmers were one gaining highest added value. In terms of sticky rice’s market demands, it was focused mostly on indicators related to farming practices. Therefore, 1M5Rs technique is a highly feasible solution, which should be employed to improve values of the chain and enhance competitive ability in the context of international integration.

Motivation is an important element of effective instruction and is fundamental to the learning process (Slavin, 2008). Motivation creates a powerful energy source that makes learners act and maintain action to achieve learning goals. Learning outcomes, things learnt and applied in practice, will have great influence on learners’ later career. While previous studies indicated that learning motivation is affected by groups of elements relating to school, family, friend and student characteristics, this paper focused on university - related factors affecting learning motivation of economics students based on a survey of 495 students of College of Economics at Can Tho University. The results showed that their learning motivation was affected positively by main factors including extracurricular activities, quality of teachers, curricula, learning conditions and learning environment.