ABSTRACT
Vietnam's agricultural sector plays a key role in the country's economy and it will exert a strong influence on Vietnam's long-term development. As agricultural reforms in Vietnam have shown, they have not only their own characteristics but share features with reforms in other sectors of the economy as well. Therefore, it is necessary to study the main reforms in Vietnam's agriculture so as to understand its broader ongoing economic reforms. By the end of the 1970s, agriculture had fallen into a state of stagnation and crisis. The causes of agricultural stagnation cannot be found in the state's programme of investment and technical improvements. Rather, they rest with the whole mode of production itself. The restoration of the peasant economy, making peasant households autonomous economic units, is the most profound decision in this economic revolution. The appearance of a commodity economy in Vietnam has polarized the structure of traditional agriculture.
