SITUATION OF FARMING OF SON LA PROVINCE IN THE PERIOD 1900 – 1930s

DOI: 10.18173/2354-1067.2020-0068

Abstract

Besides cultivation, breeding is one of important parts in Vietnamese traditional agricultural economy. Especially to mountainous place as Son La, this type of economy plays an essential role. Farming provides a main source of food for humans, especially for ethnic minorities because Thai people hold mostly ricefield. By investigating primary materials, mainly French documents keeping in the Vietnam National Archives Center No.I (Hanoi), this paper describes the raising situation of Son La province in the early twenty century with some main issues as following: changes of breeding policies of the French colonial government, types of animals; breeding technics, the quantity and quality, productivity and output of this economic activity. Beyond that, this article argues that there were some new factors on farming in this period