Tran Ngoc Hien and Vo Thanh Cong are among the province’s outstanding youths just awarded the 2012 Luong Dinh Cua Awards from the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Committee. With high determination and diligence, they have gained successes in production and business  when setting themselves up in business on their homeland Binh Duong.

Self-employment

With a bachelor’s degree in animal health and husbandry, Vo Thanh Dong residing at An Son hamlet, An Dien commune, Ben Cat district is very confident to select his own way of business by setting up a livestock breeding farmstead.

Dong said that he spent 4 years on working for a farm produce company before going to university. Knowledge learnt during 4 years at university plus personal experience is seen as a lever to make Dong’s dream come true.

With little capital from his family, Dong has bravely opened a pig-breeding farmstead and then continued getting involved in the model of breeding rabbits. Realizing that breeding rabbits is also very easy and the demand for this kind of animal is very great. Therefore, he has expanded this model of animal husbandry.

Dong is now the owner of a large-scale livestock breeding farmstead with 2,000 rabbits, 800 pigs and 1,200 ducks. His farmstead generates jobs for 6 laborers with the average income of VNS3.5mln per capita per month.

Also like Dong, after obtaining an intermediate degree in veterinary, Ngoc Hien residing at 51B, My Hao hamlet, Chanh My, TDM city has taken full advantage of her family’s land to open an animal husbandry farmstead.

Hien said that she started her business with only several buffaloes, and several tens of chickens from VND5mln in loan of the local Farmers’ Society. Two years later, realizing that this model brought low economic efficiency, Hien bravely borrowed additional loans for the shift of animal structure. Particularly, she changed to the model of breeding goats, cows, bantams, ducks and fish with high economic efficiency.

Thanks to her diligence and go-ahead spirit, Tran Ngoc Hien has promoted her family’s business and production. Her family now owns 150 goats. Around 15 or 20 goats are sold every month, bringing her family an average income of VND20mln. Her family also owns 21 mother cows, 50 bantams and a 3,000 sqm pond for breeding fish and growing water-lilies.

Success

Although her family’s farmstead has gone into stability, Hien is very busy. Hien said: “Farmstead business over the past years brought me high income. But, I will not reach long-term development for this business if lacking diligence”.

Also thanks to receiving careful tendance, her family’s animals develop very well, bringing her family an average income of VND260mln per year.

Whilst, Vo Thanh Dong’s animal husbandry farmstead sells hundreds of tons of rabbit and pig meat every year, helping his family secure an average income of more than VND300mln. He has actively also got involved in technology transfer to some breeding households by providing them with animal feed, breeding animals…

With the efforts to enrich themselves on their homeland, Vo Thanh Dong and Tran Ngoc Hien have just been presented the 2012 Luong Dinh Cua Awards from the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Committee.

Reported by Kim Truong-Translated by K.T