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Figure 4-1. Percentage of traders receiv<strong>in</strong>g credit by region<br />

Formal credit<br />

North<br />

South<br />

Informal credit<br />

North<br />

South<br />

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40<br />

Percentage of traders receiv<strong>in</strong>g credit<br />

The characteristics of loans from both formal <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>formal <strong>in</strong>stitutions are broadly similar<br />

when loans to state <strong>and</strong> prov<strong>in</strong>ce owned companies are excluded from the sample. As shown <strong>in</strong> Table<br />

4-7, the <strong>in</strong>terest rate for loans from both formal <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>formal <strong>in</strong>stitutions was about 1.5 percent per<br />

month <strong>in</strong> 2000, while loans from formal <strong>in</strong>stitutions tended to be for a longer period (8.6 months<br />

versus 5.9 months, on average). Loans from <strong>in</strong>formal <strong>in</strong>stitutions, however, tended to be larger than<br />

loans from formal <strong>in</strong>stitutions, both <strong>in</strong> the North <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong> the South. With the <strong>in</strong>clusion of the large<br />

loans to state <strong>and</strong> prov<strong>in</strong>ce owned companies by formal <strong>in</strong>stitutions <strong>in</strong> the sample, the average formal<br />

loan <strong>in</strong>creases to 2.6 billion VND, for a somewhat shorter period of 8.3 months, at a lower average<br />

<strong>in</strong>terest rate of 1.3 percent per month.<br />

6.4 Assets<br />

Overall, the average fresh fruit <strong>and</strong> vegetable market<strong>in</strong>g bus<strong>in</strong>ess has about 2.4 billion VND<br />

<strong>in</strong> assets (see Table 4-8). While relatively large, when assets that are largely peripheral to the fruit <strong>and</strong><br />

vegetable market<strong>in</strong>g bus<strong>in</strong>ess are excluded, the average firm <strong>in</strong> the sample has only about 471 million<br />

VND <strong>in</strong> assets for their bus<strong>in</strong>esses fruit <strong>and</strong> vegetable trad<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> process<strong>in</strong>g components. When<br />

peripheral assets are excluded, about 78 percent of the current value of the firms assets are <strong>in</strong> the form<br />

of l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> build<strong>in</strong>gs. In addition, the average bus<strong>in</strong>ess <strong>in</strong> the sample has about 57 million VND or<br />

about 12.1 percent of non-peripheral fresh fruit <strong>and</strong> vegetable market<strong>in</strong>g assets <strong>in</strong> transport related<br />

items such as trucks, boats, motorbikes, etc., about 7.6 percent <strong>in</strong> durable goods such as office<br />

furniture <strong>and</strong> equipment. <strong>and</strong> about 2.3 percent of non-peripheral assets are process<strong>in</strong>g or trad<strong>in</strong>g<br />

equipment related assets.<br />

Chapter 4. Fruit <strong>and</strong> Vegetable Traders Page 4-7

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