Due to his teaching job away from home and not enough income to cover his living expenses, Mr. Pham Van Tinh (in Thanh Hoa) decided to "turn sideways" and quit his job to return to his hometown to collect cow dung to raise earthworms.
Quit job to raise worms
Go to Tho Son commune, Trieu Son district (Thanh Hoa) ask Mr. Pham Van Tinh, everyone knows, because he is a typical of doing business locally, with the model of raising earthworms. Currently, his model is creating jobs for dozens of workers and earning hundreds of millions of dong a year.
Sharing about his model of raising earthworms, Mr. Pham Van Tinh said that more than 10 years ago, when he was a teacher at the Continuing Education Center of Quan Hoa district, Thanh Hoa province (about 200km from home), he decided to quit his job and return to his hometown to learn how to raise earthworms.
“Actually, before making the above decision, I considered quite a lot, due to my teaching job away from home, low income and unsecured living. Then, by chance, I learned the model of raising earthworms through books and newspapers, which can bring high income. Right after that, I quit my job as a teacher and returned to my hometown to study worm farming, "said Mr.
According to Mr. Tinh, when he learned that he was going to quit teaching, his family and friends advised him a lot, however, after he explained, everyone partly understood and supported him. After leaving the teaching profession to return to his hometown, in early 2008, he went to the southern provinces to learn experience in raising earthworms. After a few months of studying, he returned to his hometown and decided to borrow a red book from a bank (more than 200 million VND) and start building a worm farm, on the family's own land of about 300m2.
Earn hundreds of millions
The work of raising worms was initially successful, when a few months later, he produced the first "batch" of worms. The idea that the job will be "easy to row", but the difficulty has just begun because worms are raised but can't find a place to sell. "For four years, I kept running backwards and forwards to find a market for worms, how much capital, even borrowing, I put all of it into worms, but the more I did it, the more I lost money" - Mr. Tinh recalled.
Determined not to be discouraged, Mr. Tinh roamed around looking for markets to sell. With earthworm products, he went to shrimp farms to introduce, and organic fertilizer products from worm farming he went to clean vegetable farms. By the end of 2012, his efforts also paid off, when some organic shrimp and vegetable farms began to come to order and buy products.
After more than a decade of efforts, now Mr. Tinh's earthworm farm has expanded to about 1m1.000, the products (including earthworms and organic fertilizers) are supplied to the market throughout the provinces from the South to the North. On average, Mr. Tinh produces 2 crops of earthworms each year and produces products such as fresh worms, dried worms and organic fertilizers.
For the current selling price of fresh earthworms ranging from 35.000 to 40.000 VND/kg, dried worms from 200.000 to 300.000 VND/kg, the supply market is shrimp and fish farms. In addition, after harvesting earthworms, Mr. Tinh's farm also collects organic fertilizer products to sell to farms and gardeners to make clean vegetables.
Besides raising earthworms, Mr. Tinh is also developing a model of raising eel without mud and consuming output for about 15 local farmers' farms. According to Mr. Tinh, the above models have brought him a profit of about 500 million per year.
According to Mr. Le Trung Kien - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Tho Son commune, Trieu Son district, Mr. Pham Van Tinh is a typical example of young people doing good business in the locality. His model not only brings high economic efficiency but also creates jobs for nearly 10 local workers. Currently, the locality is also propagating and encouraging people to study and make this model for economic development.
Laodong.vn
