Answer:
The
main motive of the French was to exploit the natural resources and other
essential goods from Vietnam. For development of their own business profit the
French began to develop the infrastructural projects in Vietnam.
The French began by building canals and draining lands in the Mekong
delta of Vietnam to increase cultivation. The vast system of irrigation works canals
and earth works built mainly with forced labour of the natives, increased rice
production.
The area under rice cultivation went up from 2,74,000
hectares in 1873 to 1.1 million hectares in 1900 and 2.2 million in 1930. It
exported two-third of its rice production and by 1931, Vietnam became the third
largest exporter of rice in the world.
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