ABSTRACT
The organization of vegetable cultivation—In an agricultural community such as Khanh Hau, one would expect a considerable amount of supplementary farm activity such as fruit and vegetable raising, fishing, and poultry and livestock breeding. This is especially so where, as in Khanh Hau, the typical villager has a fairly small amount of land at his disposal, and where he tends to live at or near subsistence levels. Under these circumstances the additional production would be vital to the households. Yet a substantial number of households do not engage in such pursuits. An overall picture of fruit and vegetable raising in three hamlets of Ap Dinh “A” and “B” and Ap Moi is given by the data shown in Table 5.1. Judging from this sample, approximately half the households raise both to some degree, but 22 percent do not raise either. Moreover, it is much more common among middle and upper class households in the sample to raise vegetables or fruit or both, whereas all but one of those households raising neither fell into the lower class. Thus, the households seem at a disadvantage in terms of opportunity to raise fruit and/or vegetables; this is coupled with access to the smallest amounts of rice land, for the latter was the main basis on which households were assigned to the various socio-economic categories.
