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VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY

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5 LY THUONG KIET BOULEVARD HANOI

No 045/VNA

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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15,1936

12.1986

THURSDAY

February 14,1986

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CHANGES IN CENTRAL HIGHLANDS PROVINCE

OF DARIAC

Hanoi VNA Feb.13

Before the liberation of South Vietnam the Central ilgalaid province of Dafine mo the habitat of 330,000 people of ethnic minorities, mostly nomdie people.

Jarlac, covering 19,000 quare kam to pougeoned of grent and diversified economic potentials. Due to the lack of mu- power and backward methods of cultivation, agriculture in the province remained incat primitive up to regently.

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Sinco 1979, Durlac began to receive people from the Rod River delta and the control coastal area who came to build. "new economic Zones". At the gume timo, it launched a comprim for settlement of nomadio people improving the lend for wet rice cultivation, and expanding the acreage under industrial crops in all the three sectors: ctte, collective and family.

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As a result, more than 19,000 freilles composed of more thu 100,000 people in the province have changed from a migratory 1 to 2 bed,T, ond. 1,000 families comprising 6,600 people