The young man left the city and returned to his hometown to start a farm and make billions of money

Ha Hoa in June often rains unexpectedly.

Bui Duc Tuyen, 28 years old, graduated from Hanoi Academy of Finance with a major in accounting in 2013. The family has three sisters, but the youngest brother has cerebral palsy.

Bui Duc Tuyen with the pigs on his farm.

Returning to his hometown at the end of 2013, Tuyen asked his parents to mortgage his red book and borrow 300 million VND from the bank to raise pigs and grow fruit trees.

In the first days, the farm had no electricity. Tuyen pulled a wire to get electricity from the transformer station and installed a pipe to collect spring water from the mountain 300 meters away.

After the pig pen was built, when someone told him there was a house selling piglets, he came back.

`What’s the point of having face when a man doesn’t dare to think about getting rich?` he replied.

It took half a month to buy 70 breeding pigs.

The pigs recovered from the disease and were released to the pigs 4 months later.

As a result, the two largest animals in the herd fell dead.

Learning from experience buying piglets from small, unvaccinated households, Tuyen turned to raising sows.

`I was very scared. But seeing that the mother pig was in pain from morning to afternoon and could not give birth, I still had to help,` Tuyen recalled the first time she delivered a pig in 2015. Even though she was able to pull the piglet out, it was too late.

Failures bring many valuable lessons to Tuan and are the foundation for the next generations to win big.

Tuan (blue shirt, 4th from left) explains the closed model from breeding to farming, processing and consumption of the cooperative to visitors.

In January 2016, to find a stable source and avoid price pressures from traders, Tuyen established a cooperative from 20 members specializing in raising pigs in the village, of which he holds the role of director.

This time, Tuyen takes on a new role.

There were days when I came home empty-handed, under the hot sun and drenched in sweat, but Tuyen never wanted to give up.

Realizing that traditional marketing was not satisfactory, Tuyen developed a plan to invite parents and teachers to the farm to directly visit the cooperative’s closed production model.

`Tuan is very determined, determined to do it right,` Mr. Bach Duc Vuong, party cell secretary, head of area 11, Xuan Ang commune – where Tuan Sinh lives – commented.

In early May, Bui Duc Tuyen was voted as one of 34 advanced young people nationwide.

In recent months, pork prices have increased, Tuyen feels more secure.

`As long as you always keep your mind active and don’t run out of will, any agricultural product can make money,` he said.