Sweetpotato is considered a climate adaptation option due to its relative tolerance to heat and salinity. The Mekong Region is the largest sweetpotato producing area in Vietnam with a stable export market demand. CGIAR Asian Mega Deltas Initiative has been exploring the potential of incorporating sweetpotato production in the rice cropping system in this region. A rice-sweetpotato crop rotation has a number of environmental and agronomic advantages for farmers such as pathogen control in the soil, greenhouse gas emission reduction, and the utilization of plots with increasing salinity in the areas where it will be difficult to grow rice in the future. Currently, rice-sweetpotato crop rotation is only implemented in some parts of Vinh Long province where sweetpotato is an important cash crop.

Understanding farmers’ agronomic practices is the first step toward developing site-specific strategies and innovations. Therefore, in November 2023, a household survey was conducted of 89 sweetpotato growing households (11 female and 78 male farm managers) in Bình Tân district, Vĩnh Long province, Vietnam.