Being workers with a stable income, Quach Ngoc Kien and his wife in Long hamlet (Yen Tri commune, Yen Thuy district - Hoa Binh) decided to leave the city to return to the countryside to work in Agriculture. While struggling to find suitable plant varieties, Mr. Kien heard about a super-yielding cucumber variety. Learning more on social networks as well as the experiences of other gardeners, Mr. Kien decided to try starting a business with this variety of melon on his family's 2 sao of land.
The result was surprising; the melon variety he tested was superior in yield, 3-4 times higher than other cucumber varieties. Mr. Kien bought 4 bags of seeds (priced at 125.000 VND/bag), and after more than 2 months the melon garden began to be harvested. Currently, only about 70% of the crop has been harvested, he has picked about 2,9 - 3 tons of melons. The selling price at this time is 9.000 VND/kg, he earned 27 million VND, minus investment costs, and he made a profit of 25 million VND; a figure that when he was a worker, he and his wife "couldn't even dream of".
In the near future, the couple plans to use all 5.000 square meters of their family's land to expand this melon variety. "Every year, my wife and I will slowly grow two crops, and after deducting expenses, we will still make a profit of hundreds of millions of dong," Kien shared.
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