With only 20 square meters of land in front of her house, how does a farmer in Hau Giang grow crops to "pay herself" 50 million/year?

Ms. Lien (My Quoi B hamlet, Cay Duong town, Phung Hiep district (Hau Giang province) grows vegetable seedlings to earn extra income to cover her living expenses and to take advantage of her free time at home to do housework for her family.

Taking advantage of the 20 square meter land area in front of her house, Ms. Huynh Kim Lien, a farmer in My Quoi B hamlet, Cay Duong town, Phung Hiep district, Hau Giang province, has renovated the land to grow vegetable seedlings.

The vegetable seedlings that Ms. Lien grows and sells are many types of vegetables and fruits such as: papaya, tomato, eggplant, chili...

Ms. Lien sells these vegetable seedlings to households who need to buy seedlings and to small traders who buy seedlings to resell. From there, Ms. Lien has an additional source of income to cover daily expenses and stabilize her life.

Ms. Lien, a farmer in Cay Duong town, Phung Hiep district, Hau Giang province, is taking care of various vegetable seedlings. With only 20 square meters of land in front of her house, Ms. Lien grows vegetable seedlings for sale and earns a profit of nearly 50 million VND/year.

With more than 7 years of experience in growing vegetable seedlings, Ms. Huynh Kim Lien shared: Growing vegetable seedlings is very simple and easy to do.

The materials used to grow vegetable seedlings are easy to find and cheap, mainly using duckweed mixed with rice husk ash and banana leaves to wrap the pots. Thanks to the large amount of resources, the investment cost to grow vegetable seedlings is very low.

Ms. Huynh Kim Lien said that she grows and sells vegetable seedlings all year round. On average, she sells 10,000 vegetable seedlings of all kinds every month, at a price of 500 VND/plant, earning 5 million VND. After deducting 1 million VND in expenses, she still has a profit of 4 million VND.

Ms. Huynh Kim Lien added: The number of seedlings sold is large, mainly concentrated in the rainy season, at this time people grow vegetables that are very easy to grow, the weather is very favorable, easy to care for and reduce costs.

Furthermore, in the months near Tet, people buy a lot of vegetable seedlings, taking advantage of planting vegetables to prepare for Tet sale, so during this time, the number of people ordering seedlings is very large, the quantity sold is also more than in the first months of the year.

Since then, her income has also increased and if calculated for the whole year, Ms. Lien sold a total of 120,000 vegetable seedlings, earning 60 million VND after deducting 12 million VND in expenses, with a profit of 48 million VND/year.

Ms. Lien said that growing colorful seedlings is a very suitable job for her. In the coming time, she will continue to do it and increase the scale to meet people's demand for seedlings.

Source: https://danviet.vn/chi-co-20m2-dat-truoc-nha-chi-nong-dan-hau-giang-trong-kieu-gi-ma-tu-tra-luong-50-trieu-nam-20240728234009486.htm