Editing Annam (French protectorate) (section)

== Economy ==
During the French period there was little industry. The economy was an agricultural one based on:

* the cultivation of rice, which grows mainly in the small [[river delta|deltas]] along the coast and in some districts gives two crops a year.
* fishing, fish salting and the preparation of [[fish sauce]]{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=62}}

Silk spinning and weaving were carried on in what the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]] called "antiquated lines ...[[silkworms]] [are] reared in a desultory fashion". Other crops were tea, tobacco, cotton, [[cinnamon]], precious woods and rubber. Coffee, [[black pepper|pepper]], [[sugarcane]] and [[jute]] were also cultivated to a minor extent. The exports comprised tea, raw silk and small quantities of cotton, rice and sugarcane. The imports included rice, iron goods, flour, wine, [[opium]] and cotton goods. There were coal mines at Nong Son, near Da Nang, and as well as mining of gold, silver, lead, iron and other metals which occur in the mountains.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=62}} [[Human trafficking]] in Annamite women and children to China occurred from the 1870s to the 1940s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lessard|first1=Micheline|title=Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=Abingdon, UK|isbn=9781138848184|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2KhCAAAQBAJ}}</ref> Trade, which was controlled by the Chinese, was mostly carried out on the sea, with the chief ports being Da Nang and Qui Nhơn, open to European commerce.