SHRIMP FARMERS RISK MANAGEMENT AND DEMAND FOR INSURANCE IN BEN TRE AND TRA VINH PROVINCES IN VIETNAM

Shrimp production and exports are important to rural economic development of Vietnam.The growth in production and exports has accelerated in the past decade, but so too have been the losses from natural disasters and diseases.To protect famers from disease losses, the government established a subsidized pilot insurance program with the expectation

Application of the Arya and Paris (AP) model to estimate the soil water retention curve requires a detailed description of the particlesize distribution (PSD) but limited experimental PSD data are generally determined by the conventional sieve-hydrometer (SH) method.Detailed PSDs can be obtained by fitting a continuous model to SH data or performin