1. ACTION PLAN: PROBLEM AND RESOURCE ANALYSIS
PHAM THI PHUONG LOAN
27 SEPTEMBER 2018

2. ACTION PLAN
Hanoi
Da Nang
Ho Chi Minh City
Hai Phong
Can Tho
VINH LONG
PROJECT PLAN: BUILD A FACTORY TO MANUFACTURE SWEET POTATO CHIPS
LOCATION: VINH LONG PROVINCE IN MEKONG DELTA, SOUTHERN OF VIETNAM

5. PROBLEM ANALYSIS Resource type Problems Way to overcome Expected value
Product
Sweet potato: excess supply in harvest season
Processing sweet potato into chips (like potato chips)
Increase value for sweet potato
Increase income for farmers
People
Good at planting sweet potato but not good at market demand
Specializing in sweet potato cultivating in accordance with GAP
Provide high quality of sweet potato
Infrastructure
Fund No
Create a cooperative with the help from KOICA or NGOs
Attract people and fund in local and outside
Collaborator
Technology
Unavailable
Ask experts for proper machinery
Choose a proper machinery for manufacturing chips

6. RESOURCE ANALYSIS Resource type Resources Way to use Expected value
Product
Sweet potato: abundant
Use sweet potato as input for processing sweet potato chips
Increase value for sweet potato
Increase income for farmers
People
Good at planting sweet potato
Specialize in sweet potato cultivating in accordance with GAP
Provide high quality of sweet potato
Infrastructure
Near Ho Chi Minh City (2 hours) and Can Tho (1 hour)
Near big domestic markets
Access domestic market;
Export

7. RESOURCE ANALYSIS Resource type Resources Way to use Expected value
Fund
Cooperative members
Bank loans
KOICA or NGOs
Build the building
Install the machinery
Recruit workers
Train human resources
A factory is ready for operation
Collaborator
Farmers, cooperative and experts from KOICA or NGOs
Farmers provide inputs (sweet potato and human labor force) for cooperative
The factory operates profitably in long term
Technology
Buy machinery for factory
Install and operate the machinery
Increase the efficiency of the machinery

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