Vol. 17 No. 10 (2019)

This study was conducted to evaluate the current status and management of greenery in Ha Dong’s secondary schools, Hanoi. The study aimed at providing a basic database and understanding of the development of greenery areas in schools in Hanoi. The methodology of this study based on the methods of a botanical survey and participatory interviews with the rector, teacher, and pupils. The results showed the diversity of plants in schools with 55 species, belong to 23 orders and 46 families. The growth of almost trees was safe for outside activities and the learning of people in schools. However, according to the Vietnam standard (TCVN 8794/2011), most of the schools (14/15 schools) aren’t accomplishing the requirement in terms of planting areas over 30% of total areas. The green space per student in 12per 15 surveyed schools was lower than the Vietnam standard (TCVN 9257/2012: 2m2per student). The management and development of green areas are facing several difficulties namely lack both planting area and specialized staff to maintain while there are difficult to integrate into the biological curriculum of the school. The solutions focus on increasing green areas in schools up to Vietnam standards and using perennial flower plants, growing well and easy to planting. Additionally, the awareness and roles of pupils and professional qualifications of staff in the “Green School” concept also need to improve regarding; planting, caring plants and tree activities in order to maintain the green area based on each school condition.

Food hygiene and safety (FHS) is always one of the top consumer concerns when choosing food, including fresh pork. However, the system of quality and food safety management has been poorly applied in pork delivery in Vietnam. This research aimed to assess effects on FHS of pork of application of good hygiene practice (GHP). The studywas designed following the model of the intervention-control clinical trial, using10 traditional markets. The chosen markets were randomly divided into two groups: the GHP group with 5 markets to apply GHP, whereas the non-GHP group with the other 5 markets to sell pork as before. At the beginning and end of the study, awareness and practice of FHS of the butchers were assessed through the interview using semi-structured questionnaires; at the same time the levels of microbial contamination of pork, equipment, and water were evaluated with sample analyses. It was found that application of GHP significantly improved awareness of pork hygiene and right practices for personal hygiene of butchers and reduced microbial contamination on the fresh pork, equipment, and water.

This study was done in order to confirm the presence of waterfowl parvovirusesin clinical cases of short beak and dwarfism syndrome at Hung Yen province in 2019. The main clinical signs of sick duckswere watery diarrhea, short beak and stunting. Gross lesions werepale ofmyocardium, liver with fibrinous exudate and enlargement of the gallbladder. The combinations of PCR based-detection,sequencing and sequence analyses of the protein-coding genes (NS and VP1)confirmed the presence of waterfowl parvovirus insickducks. The detected waterfowl parvovirus was genetically grouped with novel goose parvovirus (NGPV group).

This pilot study has to phases, uses domestic and livestock wastewater to create periphyton biomass on filter materials (plastic material, baked clay, coconut fiber pebbles and gravel), then uses to remove pollutants in wastewater. Results showed that periphyton grows on plastic material, baked clay, coconut fiber faster than on pebbles and gravel, with a density of about 12-23x106cells per cm2after 9-12 days. Suitable genus for wastewater condition are Amphipleura, Cyclotella, Navicula, Nitzschia(Bacilariophyta), Euglena(Euglenophyta), Closterium, Pediastrum, Ulothrix(Chlorophyta) and Aphanothece(Cyanophyta). With this wastewater (organic compounds, nitrogen, phosphorus, microorganisms pollution, high turbidity), periphyton systems removed organic, nitrogen and phosphorus to the concentration lower than National Technical Regulations (NTR 14:2008/MONRE and NTR 62-MT:2016/MONRE) after 03 days (domestic wastewater) or 05 days (livestock wastewater). Treatment efficiency were above 65%, especially above 80% for total nitrogen and phosphorus, above 94% for total coliform.

The purpose of this research was to assess consumer satisfaction in LongBien district with the quality of the service of E-commerce website Sendo.vn. The research combined the scale of E-S- QUAL model and E-RecS-QUAL model to set up 29 standards in 6 groups of service quality of e-commerce website, including access efficiency, performance efficiency, system availability, privacy, fulfillment and supporting of website.Based on the survey about 168 customers who hadever purchased goods on the Sendo.vn website,the study indicated that customers’satisfaction dependedmostlyon price factors, product quality, and reliability,.

The present study wasaimed at investigating the current statusof afforestation linkage model with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)standards in Tuyen Quang province. Systematic and participatory approach methods were used. Basedon a survey of 120 forest plantinghouseholds, the study revealedthat additional income of households who participated in the linkage model and were able to sell FSC certified timber was 10-15% higher than non-participating households. Although many benefits from FSC afforestation linkage model, the forest area with FSC of households in Tuyen Quang provincewere attained, the afforestation was still in smallscaleand farmers still did not actively participate in the model. The study therefore recommended feasible solutions in order to develop afforestation linkage model with FSC standards in Tuyen Quang province such as enhancing the household’s awareness about benefits of model; establishing an effective permanent linkage structure between wood processing companies and farmers; local governments should play a role in the linkage by supporting and connecting between the two parties.

This study aimedto assess the current status of attracting the investment of enterprises and proposedsolutions for enhancing the investment of enterprises in the agriculture sector in Hoa Binh province.This study collected information from150 agricultural enterprises and 90 local government officialsin Hoa Binh. Hoa Binh paid much attention and issued many policies and solutions to improve the investment environment, enhance competitiveness and attract enterprises to invest in agriculture sector. As of 2018, therewere525 projects in the province, of which only 59 wereagricultural projects (accounting for 11.2%), with total investment of 14.5 trillion VND. However, the results obtained from attracting enterprises’ investment in agriculture were stilllow, not commensurate with the potential and advantages of the province.Therefore, there are a number of solutions should be implementedin order to effectively and sustainably attract enterprises investing in agriculture sector in Hoa Binh such as: completing and well-implementing policies on land, credit and human resource improvement; reforming administrative procedures and improving the investment environment; investing in upgrading and completing infrastructure for agricultural production; improving the capacity of cooperatives; Integrating sectoral and product plannings into general socio-economic planning.

The study was conducted to analyze the rungs and degrees of citizen participation in the northern mountains poverty reduction project - phase 2 in Sinh Phinh commune, Tua Chua district, Dien Bien province. This study also appliedthe Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation (1969), descriptive statistics methodand comparative statistical methodto analyze the information. The result foundthat in most phases, people participated at the tokenism level and even at non-participation level. Only a small percentage of people participated in the project at empowerment level in some stages including: prioritizing their needs, contributing their resources and implementing the project. Therefore, to future poverty reduction projects, it is very important to improve the participation of people in these projects towards achieving sustainable poverty reduction in Vietnam.

In order to find out the status of the employment of labour after vocational trainingin Hung Yen province, the studywasconductedwiththe survey with 240 samples of the trained laborsin Phung Chi Kien commune (My Hao district) and Phu Thinh commune (Kim Dong district) in the period of 2011-2016, combined with in-depth interviews with district and commune leaders and the trained labors. The survey results showedthat Hung Yen province was very active in promulgating policies directly or indirectly affecting the employment creation. Most of the labour were employedafter traning, mostly self-employed or working the private sector. The article also evaluates the quality of work of the workers after vocational training on a number of perspectives such as income, working time, rest time, safety and stability in work.