Nghe An representative entered the final round of 'Rural Youth Startup Project 2021'

“Rural Youth Entrepreneurship Project 2021” is a competition organized by the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. This activity aims to promote, encourage, orient and build the spirit of entrepreneurship, career establishment, and participation in economic development in rural areas of young people.

Taking advantage of the local natural medicinal resources, Nguyen Thi Thuy Dung (born in 1990) from Nam Dan district has successfully built a soap production model from herbal plants. Photo: NVCC

The competition is for Vietnamese youth (aged 18-35) with ideas and startup projects in the agricultural sector. The competition focuses on 3 areas: Developing agriculture applying science and technology (promoting local resources through cultivation, livestock, aquaculture, forestry, salt industry, preservation and processing industries, craft villages, agricultural equipment); Environmental protection (encouraging projects with ideas applying science and technology in agricultural production, protecting the environment and exploiting local resources); Preserving national culture (developing traditional industries and products, exploiting community tourism).

The competition will take place from April to December 2021. In this round, contestants will submit clips describing their product ideas and compete online. Contestants will present and answer questions from the Jury and investors online. Accordingly, Nghe An has 4 excellent representatives selected for the semi-finals.

In 2021, Nguyen Thi Thuy Dung's project won third prize in the "Startup ideas and projects for young people in Nghe An province" contest organized by Nghe An Provincial Youth Union. Photo: Thanh Quynh

There were 33 projects that made it to the final round. Of which, Nghe An had 1 representative, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy Dung from Hai Phong hamlet, Xuan Hoa commune, Nam Dan district with the project "Producing soap from herbal plants".

In the final round, candidates will participate in a round of capital raising presentations in front of representatives of banks, credit institutions, and businesses in need of investment and production cooperation. The results of the investment call will be considered as an index to evaluate the project's ranking.