Abstract
Thai Nguyen Province is at the centre of tea production in northern Vietnam. Changing climate continues to directly impact the ways and conditions under which tea is grown. Despite the importance of this crop to the Vietnamese economy, how these changes in climate affect production and how to optimally mitigate adverse effects remains little studied. This paper helps to fill this gap. Specifically, interviews with industry and farmer respondents uncovered an increased amount and intensity of precipitation, an escalation in the frequency and severity of droughts, a rise in the frequency and severity in periods of elevated temperatures, and a shift in seasons for the optimal production of tea are the major factors affecting the tea production in the studied area. Overall, farmers had only minimal understanding of how climate change affects their production, and tended to react to rather than proactively prepare for change. This paper then records and assesses agronomic responses by farmers to those changes, and posits agronomic and cultural recommendations to make production more economically and socially sustainable.
Keywords: Tea production, Climate Change Adaptation, Vietnam, Thai Nguyen Province.
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Ban biên tập Tạp chí Kinh tế & Quản trị Kinh doanh
Phòng 514, Nhà điều hành, trường Đại học Kinh tế & Quản trị Kinh doanh
Địa chỉ: Phường Tân Thịnh, thành phố Thái Nguyên
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