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This chapter reviews the changes in agricultural land-use in the deltas, lowlands, and uplands of Vietnam and identifies the main trends in changes in agricultural land-use in each of the regions over the past three decades. Agricultural land-use in the deltas, lowlands, and uplands of Vietnam has gone through changes from the early 1990s through the first two decades of the twenty-first century. After the economic reforms of the late 1980s, which included the de facto privatization of agricultural lands, farmers have diversified crops grown on their lands, in response to market demands and new opportunities. This has led to changing patterns of agricultural land-use in the deltas and lowlands, most notably a decrease in the emphasis on rice farming, and in the uplands, a move from annual cropping to the planting of a variety of permanent tree crops and permanent fields of annual crops in the place of swidden/fallow systems.
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Leisz, S.J., Tuyen, N.T., An, N.T., Duong, N., Yen, N.T.B. (2022). Agricultural Land-Use Trends in Vietnam 1990–2020. In: Vadrevu, K.P., Le Toan, T., Ray, S.S., Justice, C. (eds) Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92365-5_30
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