Female "leader" of growing high quality mushrooms
Ms. Chau Thi Nuong (born in 1977), Director of Ta Danh Agricultural Cooperative in Co To commune, An Giang province, is one of 63 outstanding Vietnamese farmers honored in 2025.
Originally a foreign language teacher, Ms. Nuong came to farming with the desire to bring clean, nutritious food, contributing to protecting people's health during the pandemic. In 2020, during the complicated period of the COVID-19 pandemic, realizing that mushrooms are not only a nutritious food but also a valuable medicinal herb, she and her husband, a food technology engineer, boldly invested in the 3-hectare Nuong Farm. With technical support from lecturers from Ho Chi Minh City National University (An Giang branch), she gradually mastered mushroom growing technology, especially black termite mushrooms, a type of mushroom rich in nutrients and high economic value.
Ms. Nuong shared: “The core point of Nuong Farm’s success is the closed-loop economic model. This is not only a production process but also a sustainable business philosophy, aiming at harmony with nature and environmental protection.”
To achieve a closed economic cycle, she uses straw, rice husks, corn bran, and rice bran collected from the process of growing rice and corn on an area of about 10 hectares to make seed spawn, inoculate spawn, and create a substrate for growing mushrooms. After harvesting mushrooms, the by-products are used as food for earthworms. Earthworm waste creates a very good amount of organic fertilizer used to fertilize rice and corn plants. Then, rice and corn stalks are collected to make new mushroom spawn. This process creates a closed cycle, not only helping to reduce agricultural waste but also creating clean, high-value mushroom products, grown according to standards, without using fertilizers or pesticides. Nuong Farm's products, especially black termite mushrooms, are currently distributed in supermarkets, restaurants in An Giang province and wholesale markets in Ho Chi Minh City. In addition, the cooperative also produces spawn to sell to local farmers, an average of 10,000 black termite mushroom spawn per month.
In particular, to optimize costs, Nuong Farm has invested in a solar panel system to help save electricity, stabilize the temperature of the mushroom growing area, helping the yield from 1.5-2 tons of commercial mushrooms per 1,000 bags of spawn to increase to 2.5-3 tons.
The cooperative currently has a revenue of more than 15 billion VND/year, a profit of over 7 billion VND, creating stable jobs for 50 workers (80% are Khmer women) with an income of 6-9 million VND/month.
With her persistent efforts and the spirit of daring to think, daring to do, and determination to invest in a sustainable direction, Ms. Chau Thi Nuong also won the "Top 10 Best Enterprises" award at the Vietnam ESG Initiative Competition in 2023. At the same time, with the success of the closed-loop economic model from mushrooms, Ms. Nuong was named in the list of "Outstanding Vietnamese Farmers in 2025" voted by the Central Executive Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union.
Sharing her feelings as one of the 63 outstanding farmers, Ms. Nuong said that the program not only brings honor to each individual but also recognizes the persistent efforts of farmers across the country. Every Vietnamese farmer, whether in the mountains, plains or coastal areas, shares the same aspiration: to become rich legitimately on their homeland, contributing to building a green - clean - sustainable Vietnamese agriculture.
Bringing Vietnamese honey to the world market
From his passion for small bees, Mr. Le Loc Quan (Dau Giay commune, Dong Nai province) has built a Vietnamese honey brand that has reached the international market. The 46-year-old farmer is not only a "master" in beekeeping with a revenue of more than 25 billion VND per year, but also a pioneer in applying high technology to raise the value of Vietnamese honey on the world agricultural map.
As a retired soldier, Mr. Quan's chance to start beekeeping began in 2000. After many years of wandering with bees, Mr. Quan learned the need to choose a stable flower area for bees to grow healthily, produce a lot of honey and good quality. In 2015, he boldly expanded the scale of production, established Quan Phat Honey Facility and determined to cut out the middleman to bring products directly to consumers.
In 2017, when attending a workshop under the EU-Mutrap project sponsored by the European Union, Mr. Le Loc Quan was exposed to the strict standards of the European market and decided to improve the entire process to produce honey to meet export requirements. Continuously researching and improving, he applied high technology in the process of raising and exploiting honey, producing high-quality centrifuged honey, preserving the natural flavor and nutritional content, meeting international standards. In particular, he also invented refined honey in the form of dry powder that has been granted an intellectual property patent and is very convenient to transport. To date, many honey products of Quan Phat Honey Facility have met the 3-star OCOP standard, of which honeycombs have been exported to Korea and Europe, with orders of up to tens of thousands of boxes per month.
Not only enriching himself, Mr. Quan also connects with more than 120 domestic farming households, providing technical support, sharing experiences and guaranteeing stable output. Mr. Le Loc Quan's 25-year journey of beekeeping is a vivid testament to the aspiration of Vietnamese farmers with the spirit of diligence, creativity and reaching out to the world with the value of honest labor.
Pride of Vietnamese farmers
On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Farmers' Union (October 14), the ceremony to honor and award the titles of "Outstanding Vietnamese Farmer" and "Farmer Scientist" in 2025 was held in Hanoi.
From more than 100 nominations from 34 provinces and cities, the Selection Council selected the most outstanding individuals. The outstanding farmers of 2025 were evaluated based on four main criteria: Agricultural production, business, and services; achievements in the new rural construction movement; national security protection; and scientific initiatives and inventions.
Among the 63 outstanding Vietnamese farmers honored this year, there are 54 men and 9 women, of which 4 are representatives of ethnic minorities. They come from many different regions, ages and fields, but all share the same aspiration to rise up and become rich legitimately in their homeland. The youngest is Mr. Nguyen Tung Duong (25 years old, Phu Tho province) with a golden flower tea business model, bringing in a profit of 1.2 billion VND/year. The oldest is Mr. Chu Van Sam (77 years old, Phu Tho province) with a dairy cow farming model, achieving a profit of 1.4 billion VND/year.
Notably, farmer Ho Phi Thuy (Phu Quoc, An Giang province) is the one with the highest revenue, with a pearl farming model combined with eco-tourism on an area of 1,000 hectares, producing 320,000 pearls per year, with revenue from 95 - 150 billion VND. Ranked second is Mr. Nguyen Chi Linh (Ca Mau province) with a white-leg shrimp farming model, achieving revenue of about 90 billion VND/year.
Mr. Nguyen Tien Cuong, Deputy Head of the Farmers' Affairs Department, Central Vietnam Farmers' Union, happily said that this year, many young farmers have applied 4.0 technology to production, from using automatic irrigation systems, humidity sensors, to smart farm management software. They are also very active in learning about new plant and animal varieties with high productivity, quality and good resistance to climate change. This shows that today's young generation of farmers not only continues tradition but also breathes new life into agriculture, still dares to think, dares to do and is especially responsive to technology.
The success of Vietnamese farmers not only helps them get rich and affirm their position, but also spreads inspiration and leads the community to develop together. In the era of technology and international integration, with the spirit of innovation, creativity and aspiration to rise up, Vietnamese farmers have been contributing to creating a green, clean, modern and sustainable Vietnamese agriculture.
Source: https://baotintuc.vn/xa-hoi/dung-cong-nghe-lam-don-bay-tao-ky-tich-doanh-thu-20251014221137208.htm
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