Nutritional Constraints and Possibilities for Pig Production on Smallholders Farms in Central Vietnam (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Vietnam is situated along the Southeast margin of the Indochina peninsula. It has a total land area of 330,541 [km.sup.2] and the length of 1,600 km lasting from 23[degrees] Northern latitude to 6[degrees] Northern Latitude and from 103[degrees] 11 to 109[degrees] 27 Eastern Longitude. About three fourth of the land area is occupied by hills, mountains and high land. The agricultural land occupies 23.8% (7,907,207 ha) of the land. The natural pasture occupies 1% (330,000 ha) and forest occupies 30% (9,650,000 ha). The rest of the land is un-cultivated or open lands (GSO, 2006).