Factors affecting the management of public agricultural land fund in Gia Lam District, Hanoi City, Vietnam

•The study identified the influencing factors and their impact level on the public agricultural land management.•The policy group was the most influential with an impact level of 38.06%, followed by the financial group and the management factor.•The study also proposed a number of suggestions to improve the policy of the management’ public agricultural land. The study aims to identify the influencing factors and their impact level on the public agricultural land management. The results show that the policy group is the most influential with an impact level of 38.06 %, followed by the financial group with an impact level of 36.17 %, the management factor with an impact level of 25.77 %. In order to improve the efficiency of the management of public agricultural land fund, it is necessary to amend and supplement a number of policies and laws, such as setting the maximum lease time of public agricultural land fund to be equal to the duration of district-level land use planning; strengthening the propagation and dissemination of land law; rational use of fragmented and scattered land parcels; settling encroached or occupied land plots through conversion of land use purposes into residential or public purposes of the commune.