The "Nhut" Youth Union Secretary is a good economist and won the national Ly Tu Trong award.

VAC model of Mr. Tran Anh Duc's family (far right). Photo: NVCC

Coming to village 9, Thanh Thinh commune, Thanh Chuong, everyone knows the family of Tran Anh Duc, an energetic Youth Union Secretary and a good young businessman of the commune.

Mr. Duc said: “Ever since I was in school, I liked to participate in union and association activities and was admitted to the Party in 2007. Since then, I still feel lucky to have maintained my enthusiasm for activities.”

Born in Thanh Thinh, a mountainous commune with an economy mainly based on agriculture, 90% of the population is farmers, with a low economic starting point, Duc has always wondered how to get rich right in his homeland. "To do anything, you must first have capital. But due to family circumstances, right after being discharged from the army in 2008, I decided to go abroad to work both to earn money and to gain experience," Duc confided.

With a clear direction from the beginning, Anh Duc chose to work on a livestock farm in Taiwan for 3 years. According to him, although the salary on the farm is not as high as other jobs, it helps him accumulate and gain more experience for building his own farm in the future. With three years of experience and a fair amount of capital in hand, it was time for Duc to return to build a career in his homeland.

Returning to Thanh Thinh in 2013, he did not rush to build a farm but spent time observing and researching the livestock market. Also during this time, he actively participated in the Youth Union and was trusted by everyone to be elected as Secretary of the Youth Union of Village 9. It was not until 2014 that he officially realized his long-cherished idea. Using half a billion in savings and borrowing from family and friends, Duc rented out fragmented fields, converted unproductive land into fish ponds, and raised livestock and poultry.

“It sounds easy to say, but to have over 10,000 m² of fish farming, annually selling over 1,200 pigs, 9,000 chickens and tens of thousands of chickens like now, my family and I have encountered many difficulties. The most difficult thing is still managing capital. Capital is small, not much, so we have to take short-term to long-term, doing each job one by one. When raising fish is profitable, we start building barns, buying trucks to raise pigs and chickens. Then just like that, we rotate capital to have the results like now,” Anh Duc confided.

Mr. Tran Anh Duc received the Ly Tu Trong award from the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in Hanoi. Photo: NVCC

To be more proactive in disease prevention for livestock and poultry, Anh Duc himself continued to take veterinary classes. This not only helped him take better care of the farm but he also provided free advice to people in the area. In addition, Anh Duc's family also invested in planting 160 green-skinned grapefruit trees, which have now begun to yield harvests and create regular income for 6 local workers with a salary of 4 - 5 million VND/month. Since it began to stabilize, after deducting expenses, Anh Duc's model has earned a profit of 500 - 600 million VND/year each year.

Although focusing on economic development, Anh Duc still does not forget his duty as Secretary of the Youth Union of Village 9. From youth month activities, building new rural areas, repairing internal roads to volunteer work, propagating and mobilizing people, Anh Duc is always a pioneer and a leader.

Commenting on Tran Anh Duc, Mr. Nguyen Van Vuong, Secretary of the Thanh Thinh Commune Youth Union, said that this is one of the enthusiastic Youth Union leaders of the commune, a young man who dares to think and dares to do. From the results achieved, it can be said that comrade Tran Anh Duc is a typical example of a young man who gets rich right in his homeland, worthy of learning.