TTLV: Tìm hiểu về làng nghề nuôi rắn ở xã Vĩnh Sơn

INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Full name of student: Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: 07/10/1985 4. Place of birth: Tam Phuc Vinh Tuong-Vinh Phuc 5. Number of decision to recognize students: 2551/2007/QD-XHNV-KH on November 2, 2007 of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University 6. Changes in the training process: No 7. Title of thesis: Learning about snake farming village in Vinh Son, Vinh Tuong district, Vinh Phuc Province (1986 - 2008) 8. Subject: History of Vietnam 9. Code: 60 22 54 10. Scientific instructor: Associate Proffesor. PHD. Nguyen Dinh Le Rector of the History Department, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University 11. Summary of the results of the thesis: Through the results of studies of snake farming village in Vinh Son commune, Vinh Tuong district, Vinh Phuc Province (1986 - 2008) we make the following comments: - Vinh Son locates near the center of Vinh Tuong district, it has many favorable conditions such as: plentiful labor, experience in livestock, infrastructure, geographic location near Tho Tang, a big commercial center of distrist to develop economy, especially to develop and improve the economic efficiency of snake farming. This is an important condition to develop economy and enhance living condition and income of people in Vinh Son. - Before 1986, snake farming was not popular because of many difficulties, however, after 1986, with the help of people’s committees of commune, snake farming was tested widely and now most of households in commune work in this sector, bringing high income to people, contributing to the development of livestock sector in whole village, changing the face of rural area, improve living condition, and enhance education level of people. - However, snake farming still has many disadvantages: the farming village has not been planned in a separate location, most of households is spontanous to feed snake so that the pollution of environment is increasing because of waste from food resource of snake, risk in career, high risk in farming because lack of professional medical team, difficulties in finding market, especially consuming venom products, traders usually depress price and farmers have to sell snake with low price… - The thesis also gives some situation and solution to develop the snake farming village in future.