(HBO) – Ms. Dinh Thi Nhu - a militia soldier in Mong Hoa commune (Ky Son) is the eldest child in a family with two sisters, her father used to be a Vietnamese volunteer militia assisting Laos and Cambodia. Her mother stays at home and does farming.


Ms. Dinh Thi Nhu, a female militia, Mong Hoa commune (Ky Son) in the training field.

 

Noticing that the area has a large area of lemongrass plantation, Ms. Nhu discussed with her family to open a small shop to collect goods, mainly lemongrass. The business went on. At the beginning of 2014, Ms. Nhu was selected by the Commune Military Management Board to participate in the mobile militia of the commune. Since then, Ms. Nhu has always actively learnt, striven to complete the tasks assigned.

In 2015, the District Military Management Board organized a movement to emulate staff and soldiers of the Armed Force to do good and lawful business together with the movement of hunger elimination and poverty alleviation in the localities, which were widely mobilized and motivated. This urged Ms. Nhu to find the direction of economic development for her family. She discussed with her family about how to overcome difficulties, promote production under the V.A.C model.

. The aboriginal pigs are raised freely, taking advantage of banana trees for food, so pork products are popular with the market and can be sold at high prices. Along with the maintenance of fish ponds, Ms. Nhu invested in the expansion of production, growing white sugarcane and lemongrass areas. After more than 2 years with the model, up to now, Ms. Nhu owns a model of V.A.C with a total area of ​​4 hectares, of which the breeding area is ​​80 m2, the pond area is ​​2,160 m2, the planting area is 17,000 m2. In addition, Ms. Nhu is still responsible for collecting lemongrass for local people in the area, helping local people have higher income without transporting lemongrass far away. Annually, besides her income from sugarcane and lemongrass harvest of about 80 million VND, the total income from the model reaches hundreds of millions VND. At present, in order to create clean and safe products for consumers, increasing the income and creating jobs for local workers, Ms. Nhu has carried out the project of economic development to expand the scale of the existing model.

 

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