VIETNAM TEA INDUSTRY: AN ANALYSIS FROM VALUE CHAIN APPROACH
VIETNAM TEA INDUSTRY: AN ANALYSIS FROM VALUE CHAIN APPROACH Nguyen Viet Khoi1 - Chu Huong Lan2 - To Linh Huong3 1 VNU University of Economics and Business 2 Université Nice Sophia Antipolis 3 VNU University of Economics and Business ABSTRACT Tea industry in Vietnam has a history of up to three thousand years and tea plays a vital role in income improvement and poverty alleviation in rural areas, especially in the Northern Uplands and North East South. In addition, tea is a high-value product that Viet Nam is already exporting to many other countries and territories worldwide. Having all these importance, there are still challenges facing the Vietnam tea industry including high fragmentation, small-scale operation and weak linkage among participants in the tea manufacturing process. This paper, hence, seeks to investigate the roles and benefits of participants in this single crop through value chain analysis to help them upgrade their position in the tea chain. KEYWORD...