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June 5, 2019
Some countries have their own agricultural method of doing agriculture practices
independent; growing corn fields, breeding chickens, and using horses to plow fields. On
the other hand, according to DAFE (n.d.), Vietnam has a tradition of raising buffalos for
multipurpose usage in agriculture. However, in the modern days, people are influenced to
use more machinery tractors to lessen the production time of planting and harvesting
Vietnamese farming. Could the fame of tractors affect the population of buffaloes? It is
likely that that machinery tractors will replace buffaloes in the future.
The purpose of this research report is to find out whether the population of
author uses four academic articles from different sources to relate the results and
The data consolidated aims to show the population of buffalos used for agriculture
purposes compared to the number of sold tractors in Vietnam ranging between the year of
1995 and 2005. The figure below shows that the number of tractors sold each year is
60,856 animals or 2.054% each year comparing to the population of the buffaloes in the
year 1995. Gaping between the late 1990s, the population of buffaloes diminishes at an
average of 9362 or 0.316% each year until aggressively plummet when it reaches the
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2000s. During early 2000, agricultural buffaloes decline drastically reaching to its peak at
148,348 or 5.01% loss of overall buffaloes. In addition, base on the data, the buffalo’s
population is decreasing and will continue to do so. It is expected that the decline will be
more than 148,436 individuals or more than 5.01% in the near future.
During the early 2000s (Brann, 2014), the Vietnamese company started to slaughter
buffaloes and sell it like meat in meat markets. The popularity of tractors is gaining at that
time as well, more and more buffalo domesticators are claiming their buffaloes for money
to the slaughterhouse since its labor is no longer proficient. In other words, multipurpose
agricultural buffaloes are brought to slaughterhouses in Vietnam to exchange its life for
money to the owner causing the decline of the buffaloes statistics. Moreover, some farmers
use that money to trade for tractors which works efficiently more than buffaloes’ strength
(Riedel, 2012). Thus, the importance of conserving agricultural buffaloes are not
acknowledged or enhanced among the people associated with the decline of the buffaloes.
This research report concludes that the decline of the agricultural buffaloes in
Vietnam is due to the fame of tractors which is gaining after its invention. The declining
number of buffaloes since 1995 is approximately 2.054% gradually decrease each year.
Besides, it is possible for a massive loss of more than 148,436 individuals or 5.01% in the
future. The government should find a way to encourage the buffalo owners to keep their
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