1. ACTION PLAN: BUILD A FACTORY TO MANUFACTURE SWEET POTATO CHIPS
PHAM THI PHUONG LOAN
2018

2. BACKGROUND
Hanoi
Da Nang
Ho Chi Minh City
Hai Phong
Can Tho
VINH LONG
LOCATION: VINH LONG PROVINCE IN MEKONG DELTA, SOUTHERN OF VIETNAM
The province has specialized in rice, sweet potato, water melon, grape fruits, mango, onion, vegetables, livestock and aquaculture. Sweet potatoes are cultivated abundantly but most of them are sold without being processed. Prices have fluctuated in the market.

3. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES GOALS Improve value for sweet potato
Increase income for farmers
Initiate the entrepreneurship for farmers
OBJECTIVES
Build factory for making sweet potato chips
Manage the factory to operate profitably in long terms

4. Sweet potato planting and harvesting

6. Expected products

7. 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)
Improve 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
Unavailable
Create a cooperative with the help from KOICA or NGOs
Attract people and fund in local and outside
Technology
Ask experts for proper machinery
Choose a proper machinery for manufacturing chips

8. 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

9. 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

10. THANK YOU!