Livelihood of Hmong People in Hoang Su Phi Border District, Ha Giang Province

Abstract

Hoang Su Phi is a district which has its advantages of land and climate to which Hmong people have attached for many generations. Since the Renovation (1986), the lives of many ethnicities including Hmong people in the border region have been improved increasingly which have been expressed by their ways of making living. Besides their main livelihood activities namely sweddening in combination with cultivating terraced fields, Hmong people in Hoang Su Phi district, Ha Giang province also have had a number of supplemental livelihood activities such as animal husbandry, crafts, exchange and trade, and exploitation of natural resources. Under the impact of the State supportive programs, policies, these livelihood activities have having active changes which have not been narrowed yet in the need of self-sufficient production but have had the accumulation and consumption of products attaching to market