Female reporter leaves the city to return to the countryside to raise pigs and chickens to get rich

Ms. Pham Thi Huong Lan (28 years old) in Khanh Thien commune, Yen Khanh district (Ninh Binh), originally came from a farming family, so Ms. Lan always had the ambition to get rich on her homeland. Therefore, she gave up her stable income job in Hanoi to return home to raise pigs and chickens.

Her decision was opposed by her family, parents, siblings, and neighbors, who said that going to school was to escape from the mud, to have a stable job, to make her parents proud... "When I left, my parents strongly opposed it. At first, they tried to dissuade me, but when they saw that I was so determined, they didn't say anything more, but my parents were terribly disappointed," Lan recalled.

Ms. Pham Thi Huong Lan decided to quit her job in the city to return to her hometown to start a business.

Ms. Lan shared that in 2012, after graduating from the journalism major of Hue University of Sciences, she applied to work at VOV. During her time working there, she was exposed to many farm models with high economic efficiency and at the same time, she also got married.

The salary was stable, but both husband and wife shared the same desire to get rich by farming in their homeland, which motivated her. That's why she decided to quit her job, return home, and apply the knowledge she had learned to family production.

“In the early days of starting the business, my husband and I encountered many difficulties. The biggest difficulty for me was the limited capital, only 30 million VND. But fortunately, my husband had previously worked for a long time in the livestock breeding institute, so he had a good grasp of the technical aspects,” Lan shared.

With the support of her family, in 2014, Ms. Lan boldly borrowed money from the bank, along with her family's capital and mobilized the help of her brothers and relatives, to invest in building a barn system and buying breeding animals.

Ms. Lan's family is currently raising thousands of Egyptian chickens.

While working, she continued to learn and improve her techniques. After only 4 years, Ms. Lan's farm now maintains hundreds of pigs, big and small, and sells an average of 3 batches of pigs for meat each year, each batch averaging around 100 piglets depending on market prices.

In order to protect the environment and effectively utilize waste, her family invested in building a biogas tank using biogas technology for cooking, lighting, and heating livestock, reducing the use of grid electricity, and proactively using electricity in production.

In addition, the couple also raises thousands of Egyptian chickens, including hundreds of laying hens and thousands of reserve chickens. Ms. Lan's entire pig and chicken coop system is built in a closed manner, applying multi-compartment biological bedding techniques, with feeding troughs and automatic drinking water sources. On average, hundreds of eggs are collected each day and sold at an average price of about 2,500 VND/egg.

Ms. Lan said that her family's pig and chicken farming scale is still small, after deducting all expenses, her family only makes a profit of about 200 million VND per year. In addition, she and her husband are also planning to expand the farming scale so that the economic efficiency will be higher than at present.

“Although the income is not much higher than my old job, with that income, I can live quite well in the countryside. In addition, life in the countryside is very comfortable, without work pressure, without having to compete like in the city, I can do whatever I want...” Ms. Lan confided.

From decisions that people considered “crazy”, after a period of perseverance and struggle, Ms. Lan has now proven to everyone that the path she chose to return to farming was the right one. But perhaps what makes her happiest is being able to do the job she loves and get rich on the land where she was born.