The end
By Tessa Bunney on 29 April 2008Although handicraft and small industry lines have developed and provided a good income, all the peasant families in the (Tuong Giang) commune still receive contractual arable land and do farm work. Like in almost all the communes of the Red River Delta, the people here still consider agriculture the base of stability, and arable land a precious asset and the solid mainstay against the volatility of market concerning both the inputs and outputs of non-agricultural lines.
All the household heads interviewed agreed that: Once you live in the countryside, you must be engaged more or less in cultivation. Our forefathers…