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| Site description Table 3. Income range by source of products and settlement area Source of income Household income (VND millions) Lower area Upper area Monthly Annually Monthly Annually Rubber plantation 0.27–0.67 3.20–8.00 0.00 0.00 Acacia plantation 0.58 7.00 0.10–0.25 1.20–3.00 Livestock 0.25 3.00 0.10–0.29 1.20–3.50 Home garden 0.58 7.00 0.25 3.00 Pension 0.61 7.30 0.60 7.20 Agriculture n.a. n.a. 0.10 1.20 Rattan 0.05 0.60 n.a. n.a. War wreckage 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.20 Store 0.00 0.00 0.05–0.58 0.60–7.00 Others 0.17 2.00 0.03–0.15 0.30–1.80 Average 1.14 13.70 0.80 9.63 Range 0.35–2.08 4.2–25 0.33–1.67 4–20 n.a. means respondents gave no information in regard to the small amount of income obtained from corresponding source Figure 6. A woman from the lower part of the village harvests rubber from her plantation
Biodiversity and Local Perceptions | Another opportunity to increase and diversify income is to utilize the river for fish production. O Lau river, near the village, is approximately 20 m wide and in some parts has natural pools that offer potential for fish farming. Fisheries have been introduced and are popular in other areas of Phong Dien and A Luoi districts (Le Trong Trai et al. 2001) and may also prove useful in this village, even if there are great concerns in case of flood and about dioxin contamination of the river. 5.2.6. Access and interaction with outsiders Access to the commune is good, with a 4 m–wide path linking the village to the main road of the commune. Villagers use bicycles and motorbikes to go to the commune. During the rainy season, however, sections of the path are sometimes cut by floods, especially in the lower parts. The village road becomes muddy and slippery. A bridge connects the lower and upper parts of the village, and a bigger bridge is under construction with assistance from the Thua Thien Hue Rural Development Project (Appraisal Mission 2004). Outsiders interacting with villagers are traders who buy agricultural products (peanut, pepper, rubber, cassava) or sell meat and clothes. Sometimes villagers meet outsiders who collect eaglewood, war wreckage or rattan, but there is little interaction. The coffee shops in the upper part of the village are the place where villagers frequently chat with outsiders. Villagers reported that many extension workers from government and nongovernment institutions have held training courses in the village since the program of land allocation and reforestation started in the early 1990s. They think that these extension efforts have been very useful and hope to have more workshops especially on technical and management aspects of livestock, plantation and agriculture. 5.3. Land use and natural resources In the village’s vicinity the planned nature reserve and its buffer zone consist of patches of degraded forest, grassland, Acacia and rubber plantations, and areas reserved for agriculture. Two main rivers can be found near the village, the O Lau and My Chanh rivers. During our first observations and community meetings, we identified the main surrounding land types, e.g. alluvial plain with settlements, pepper gardens, rubber plantations, rice fields and other dry-land agriculture, hilly areas with secondary forests, Acacia plantations, settlements, pepper gardens and grasslands. We recorded about 20 different land types identified by the villagers around Khe Tran (Table 4). The land type identification reflects the official perception and classification of land tenure (e.g. land reserved for settlement, land for peanut farming), along with some features less relevant to our activities (e.g. waterfall, small road, bridge). We tried, therefore, to classify the local perception, rather than the official one, and the land types were regrouped into six main types, namely bare hills,
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