Answer:
Like colonial policy of other imperial powers, the French also subjected the. Vietnamese economy to the interests of I the homeland.
Vietnam had to supply her natural resources and other essential goods to France on their terms.
No doubt the French took up vast irrigational works and built canals - but mainly with forced labour consisting of Vietnamese people.
Increased rice production aimed to export rice to international market to make profit. Vietnam had to export two-third of its rice production to other countries.
Colonial economy of Vietnam was primarily based on rice cultivation and rubber plantation owned by the French and small section of elite Vietnamese.
Indentured Vietnamese labour was used in the rubber plantation. They lived a miserable life. The French did little to industrialise the economy.
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