The IT engineer left the city to return to the countryside to grow vegetables.

We visited Tham’s cucumber growing model using Israeli technology right in the middle of the first harvest season. The 25-year-old young man excitedly introduced to the guests the initial successes of the model in Uncle Ho’s homeland.

The model of growing melons using Israeli technology is no longer a new thing in Nam Dan, Nghe An. However, daring to invest in bringing the model of growing cucumbers using Israeli technology to Nam Phuc commune - a low-lying area often affected by natural disasters and floods like Tran Khac Tham is a different story.

Graduated from the Faculty of Information Technology, Vinh University, unlike his peers looking for a stable office job, Tham returned to his hometown to "farm".

In fact, 7 years ago, when he was still in school, this young man had the intention of returning to his homeland after graduation and working on a VAC farm. However, at that time, because he had not yet had access to much information, he had not thought about growing plants using high technology.

It was not until 4 years ago, by chance, while chatting online with friends who were studying in Israel and Japan, that Tham suddenly realized that tomatoes and cucumbers grown in greenhouses grow very well and have high yields.

“At that time, I wondered why my hometown did not apply this technology to achieve both high productivity and safety. And the idea of ​​growing trees using Israeli technology also began to take shape from here,” Tham said.

After graduating, Tham started to visit and learn more about Israeli technology application models in Da Lat, Saigon, Da Nang and models in the province to implement his ideas.

“At first, my parents and friends did not support me when I said I wanted to build an Israeli technology model. The reason is because Nam Phuc is a low-lying area, often flooded and stormy, so we have to face many risks. Next, the raw materials for the greenhouse are expensive, we have to order from afar, sometimes we have to come from abroad” - Tham confided. But luckily, after persuasion, Tham's family decided to follow their son's advice.

In August 2017, Tham began renting out small plots of land, and around September and October 2017, he hired workers to build factories, treat land, and water resources on an area of ​​1,000 square meters. It wasn't until around December 25th of the lunar calendar, when people were starting to prepare for Tet, that Tham and his family were able to plant the first crop and have recently harvested.

Harvesting the first heavy crop of cucumbers, Tham said: “Seeing the results now, I feel less worried. At first, whenever a young plant died of disease, I was so worried that I couldn’t eat or sleep. Because to have the initial investment of 550 million VND, my family had to mortgage the red book to borrow from the bank.”

Also present at the model, Mr. Tran Khac Quyen - Tham's father confided that he was born into a farming family. He sent his son to university to help him escape the situation of "selling his face to the ground, selling his back to the sky", wanting him to develop and succeed. Seeing his son return, he was truly happy because he had the will to get rich in his homeland, but when he knew his son was pursuing a farming career, he was a bit worried. He was worried about whether his son could endure the hardships of farming, and whether the model would be successful or not.

But the initial positive results made his family feel less worried and happy for their son, even though they knew the road ahead would be full of hardships. “Only by starting to work with him did we realize that today, if you want to get rich in agriculture, you have to apply science, and you can’t depend on the weather like in the past,” Mr. Quyen said honestly.

Currently, in the middle of the season, Tham's model produces more than 200 kilograms of melons per day. The melon products meet most of the criteria for clean products such as no pesticide residue, grown using biofertilizers, ensuring environmental safety, etc. Realizing the initial success of the melon model, many people in and outside the region have come to visit and learn.

Always welcoming people to come and learn, Tham shared that creating this model is first of all to fulfill his own dream, but besides that, he also wants people to see the good and the benefits to follow. More importantly, through this, this 25-year-old man also wants clean products to be accessible and serve the farmers with muddy hands and feet in all the countryside.