Adoption of Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) in Aquaculture: Evidence From Small-Scale Shrimp Farming

The increasing demand by international customers for high-quality shrimp products has led to the introduction of various certificates traceability intended validate quality in Vietnam. Vietnamese good agricultural practices (VietGAP), better known aquaculture as practices, emerged a reliable certificate small-scale farmers and prerequisite certification. This study investigates factors affecting applications VietGAP Cost-benefit analysis binary logistic regression approaches were used categorise farms with without Findings indicated that while adoption raised production costs 14.5 %, it could increase net profit up 22 %. is from increased productivity antibiotics chemical-free farming, helped fetch prices. results also revealed three positively influenced farmers’ decision acquire VietGAP; education, farm size, system. Shrimp longer schooling years, larger farms, those who possess cooperative/farming cluster membership are more likely imply certification should be promoted cooperative forms strengthening year awareness operate 5,000–9,000 m2.