Question

describe any three step taken by the French development

Answer 1

Five major steps among them are
(i) The French authority started building canals and draining lands in the Mekong delta to increase cultivation.
(ii) This vast system of irrigation work including canals and earthworks was built mainly by forced labour of native people.
(iii) The area under rice cultivation was made larger. In 1873, the area under rice cultivation was 2,74,000 hectares but in 1930, it occupied 2.2 million hectares.