Factors Influencing Vietnamese Young Labors' Engagement in The Farming Activities

This paper presents the results of an empirical analysis examining the factors influencing Vietnamese youths’ participation in agricultural production. The study employs a Logit model using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSS) for the period 2016–2024. The estimation results indicate that individual characteristics, including educational attainment, gender, marital status, and ethnicity, have statistically significant effects on young workers’ choice to engage in agriculture as their main occupation, degree of household dependence on agricultural livelihoods, the size of agricultural landholdings, place of residence (rural versus urban areas), share of agriculture in GDP. The model also confirms a declining trend in the proportion of young labors engaged in agriculture. Among the statistically significant variables, those with the largest effects on young labors’ decision to engage in agriculture include educational attainment, the degree of household dependence on agricultural production, ethnicity, and place of residence.