Rôle des intermédiaires dans l'approvisionnement de l'industrie de transformation halieutique en région du Centre sud du Vietnam

Abstract

The processing industry is playing an increasingly important role in Vietnam's overall economy. A study of the restructuring of this sector across the Coastal Central South has demonstrated the dominant role that middlemen are taking in connecting the supply, represented by fishermen and farmers, to demand, represented by processing enterprises. Still, middlemen have gone further in establishing their influences over both, via assisting small producers in inputs for production while intervening in the price fixation traditionally practiced by processing enterprises. Indeed, their position of leverage works to the detriment of small-scale producers and processing enterprises. After examining specific constraints that have hampered potential development in the field, several recommendations are therefore proposed in favour of regulations and policy-marking processes at both business and industry levels. Once the tendency of extending this model is visible, it is hoped that suggested measures can encourage Vietnam, which has thus far passively witnessed the mainstream of transition from the centrally planned to market-oriented economy, to successfully introduce far-reaching reforms.