Dai Peters

In: UA Magazine 10 - Appropriate (Micro) Technologies for Urban Agriculture

Dong Lieu commune in Hay Tay province lies some 20km from Hanoi. The area is traditionally agricultural but has, since the late 1960's, specialized in household-level root crop - cassava and canna - processing, due to its proximity to Hanoi and access to its growing markets. Since that time this processing capacity has increased 3-10 times. Cassava and canna are different crops, in the type of roots, properties of the starch, and different profitability of the starch. As the starch processing developed, a starch-based cluster of enterprises emerged in support or in association with starch processing.