Coping with risk in market-oriented production of the Dzao people in Thai Nguyen province and the Thai people in Son La province when “The State and the People work together”.

Abstract

This study presents an effective combination of the state’s role 86 of orientation with its support and the active engagement of the public in implementing policies as part of their risk coping strategy towards market-oriented agricultural production. The economic history of the Dzao in Thai Nguyen and the Thai in Son La have shown that livelihood diversification and switching objects of production are an effective risk coping strategy in agricultural production. Moreover, the creativity of the provincial government in providing financial aid to local people has a very significant contribution to minimizing risks in production. In other words, when “the state and the people work together”, the household economy policies in specific and ethnic policies in general demonstrate effective agricultural policies.