Beautiful young woman born in the 90s quits factory job to return to her hometown and start a business raising wild boars.
Giving up her job as a factory worker in the industrial zone, Dong Thi Dien (born in 1991) returned to her hometown to start her own business and has been successful in raising wild boars. Every year, this 9X-generation "Hotgirl"'s farm supplies the market with tens of tons of wild boar meat – a breed with bristles as stiff as a broom.
Five years ago, Dong Thi Dien, from A Le village, Cuong Son commune, Luc Nam district, Bac Giang province, was a diligent factory worker. Every day she went to work, receiving a meager salary at the end of the month, barely enough to buy milk for her child. Years of this grueling work left Dien exhausted, and she began to think differently: she couldn't continue working like this until she was old.
The wild boar herd belongs to young owner Dong Thi Dien.
At that time, Dien was already married. She discussed with her husband the idea of starting a business at home by raising livestock. Hearing this, her husband was wide-eyed and disbelieving that she could do such a job. Naturally, he was worried about her hardship and didn't fully support her. "I thought differently. I researched online. And in the end, I decided to choose the field of raising specialty animals, specifically wild boars," Dien shared.
Dien used the garden behind his house to raise wild boars. At times, the herd numbered up to 300 animals.
In 2014, the pretty factory worker from A Le village quit her job and returned home to raise pigs. Lacking capital, Dien chose to raise three animals: free-range chickens, wild boars, and a herd of three cows. Throughout the first year, Dien monitored and calculated that the wild boars yielded the highest profit. Furthermore, raising wild boars utilized local agricultural by-products. The price of pork was also high, over 100,000 VND/kg. According to Dien's calculations, one wild boar consumed 3,000 VND worth of feed per day. After raising them for a year and deducting expenses, she still made a substantial profit of millions of VND when selling the wild boars.
One or two years passed, and Dien completely switched to raising wild boars. He learned all the techniques for raising wild boars and building enclosures on his own from the internet and social media. When the wild boars were ready for sale, he also posted them on social media. Unexpectedly, this approach brought him success beyond his expectations. Customers from all over placed orders. From just a few initial boars, his herd grew to 300 at one point. Not stopping at the scale of his family business, Dien also partnered with neighboring households, providing breeding stock and securing sales.
Ms. Dien boldly quit her job as a factory worker to raise pigs at home. Now, her pig farm generates hundreds of millions of dong in profit each year.
This collaborative method has helped Dien have enough supply to provide to customers. "To this day, I never have enough pigs to sell. I still hope to continue expanding the collaboration for pig farming. Compared to other animals, raising wild pigs is the easiest; they are almost disease-free, and the market is wide open," Dien shared.
