Renovation in agriculture and the contribution of sociological thinking

Abstract

Within Vietnam’s broader process of social reform, agricultural renovation was the first, the most difficult, the most extensive in scope, but also the most successful. The most impressive success of agricultural renovation was that it served as a key driver behind Vietnam’s achievements in poverty reduction. Only when implementation of Contract-10 policy, the collectivized production model and the household economic model in agriculture began to be considered comprehensively from a scientific perspective, and was no longer limited to ideological thinking aimed at maintaining socialist production relations, even though they were no longer suitable with the reality of the economy. Affirming the superiority of the household-based agricultural economy in Vietnam’s socio-economic context during the early Doi Moi period was the innovation of scientific thinking and sociological thinking is the core.