Graduating university in electricity and electronics but Pham Duy Chien, born in 1994 in Vinh Ngoc Commune, Nha Trang, like growing mushrooms. He and his girlfriend started up by growing mushrooms.
Graduating university in electricity and electronics but Pham Duy Chien, born in 1994 in Vinh Ngoc Commune, Nha Trang, like growing mushrooms. He and his girlfriend started up by growing mushrooms.
On Chien’s mushroom farm in Dien Tho Commune, Dien Khanh District, the mushrooms are growing well. He told that his graduation project’ s topic was managing temperature and humidity on mushroom farms. Then, he has been keen on growing mushrooms. He studied about growing mushrooms on Internet and video clips. He also shared the care with his girlfriend named Nguyen Huyen Minh Thu, born in 1995, graduating from world history discipline of University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Ho Chi Minh City.
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In summer 2017, after university graduation, Chien and Thu worked to save money. Then, they came at Mushroom Training, Research and Development Center, Biotechnology Faculty, Vietnam National University of Agriculture in Hanoi to study growing mushrooms in a short course. “In about two weeks, we were taught about skills and practice to grow mushrooms. We were taken to mushroom farms in the North to study experience”, Thu said.
After the course, Chien and Thu started growing mushrooms on an area of 150 meters with a start-up capital of VND50 million borrowed from their families.
The first crop was very successful. However, in the second and third crops, fewer mushrooms were harvested, and in the three following crops, they lost completely. With their efforts, they had to sell their camera to buy seeding mushrooms and pay expenses. Then, they have five successful crops continuously. They started selling their products online on Facebook with CT farm brand. To bring trust for customers, the two young people make wrapping and deliver mushrooms to buyers.
The success from the first mushroom farm has encouraged the young couple as well as their families. Therefore, Chien’s family invested more money to build a large-scale mushroom farm in Dien Tho Commune. With about the investment of VND800 million, after several years, Chien and his partners has created a farm of 10 mushroom houses with 60 meters in area each. Now, CT farm can supply 80 - 100 kilograms of mushrooms each day. They deliver mushrooms to frequent clients with the price of VND100,000/kg for first-class mushrooms, and consign products for some sellers at markets.
CT farm now operates as a private business. Its management has three managers in technology, sales and brand development. The farm also creates jobs for 8 laborers who are Raglai ethnic minority people. “I’m printing new wrapping to develop the clean mushroom brand of CT farm. The farm is expected to recall initial capital, and then keep developing the scale of production, sign contracts to supply mushrooms for farm product barns frequently”, Chien said about his plan.
Xuan Thanh
Translated by T.T
