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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