Abstract
Agricultural land transition is one of processes stemmed from urbanization, a result of socio-economic development. For the last 12 years(1995-2006), the whole Vietnam has experienced rapid urbanization in compared with other Southeast Asian countries, at an annual increase rate of 3.05% However, urban sprawl has emerging while a way the government has following still neither control the urbanization as well as agricultural land transition in neither a right line nor satisfying their citizen. Me Tri commune, a suburban area of Hanoi city is the typical sample for occurring big problems in agricultural land transition. This paper aims to evaluate agricultural land transition's effects on the peasants under the process of urbanization in Me Tri commune, then proving that, in some aspects, in spite of following governmental plans, urbanization here is still spontaneous.
Here are several troubles the peasants in Me Tri commune have facing during the rapid land transition from 2000 till now that were recognized: losing traditional occupations (making bun (vermicelli) and com (immature sticky rice packed by lotus leaves), the well-known foods for Hanoi's people); hard to find new jobs in industrial or commercial sectors while there are so many great new buildings and companies just settled here; applying to unstable jobs, less safe security; owing for purchasing costly houses and furniture, expensive motorbikes, and mobile phones.
In attempt to find out an effective way in agricultural land transition, we propose in the following four points: 1) compensate with land instead of paying cash for peasants, 2) replace cash by cards for vocational training courses, 3) make a plan for labor transition before land transition or withdrawal, 4) provide an area to maintain traditional business as well as giving jobs for lost-job peasants.
