Factors affecting the competitiveness of Ho Chi Minh City’s safe vegetables

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the competitiveness of safe vegetables of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). We employed Exploratory Factors Analysis and Regression Analysis methods on data collected from a survey of 150 respondents in Binh Chanh and Cu Chi districts. The results indicate that factors affecting the competitiveness of HCMC’s safe vegetables are price, packing, quality, diversity, flexibility and distribution system. The paper also offers three policy suggestions, namely 1) expanding scale and reducing costs to decrease the price HCMC’s safe vegetables; 2) improving the quality of HCMC’s safe vegetables; 3) diversifying types of HCMC’s safe vegetables.