Dao women are good at business

With her determination and hard work, Ms. Trinh Thi Thuong - a Dao ethnic woman in Son Nga area, Nga Hoang commune (Yen Lap district) has risen above poverty, becoming a typical example of good economic performance in the locality.

Thanks to her hard work and perseverance, Trinh Thi Thuong's family has had a full life.

Born and raised in a farming family, her parents worked hard all year round on the fields and on the fields to earn a living to raise their children. Knowing that her family's circumstances were still difficult, after finishing high school, Thuong stayed home to help her parents with the fields. Then when she started a family, life became even more difficult when her two children were born. With the mindset that poverty could not be allowed to cling to her forever, Thuong decided to change her life.

At first, she boldly borrowed money from the bank, borrowed money from relatives and friends to open a grocery store combined with raising a few dozen chickens, egg-laying ducks, and a pair of piglets. Seeing that raising livestock was suitable for her ability, Thuong nurtured the idea of ​​developing a large-scale model and actively participated in training courses to improve knowledge about raising livestock, growing crops, and preventing epidemics... organized by the district and commune; proactively sought out models with high economic efficiency to learn from experience. Having accumulated knowledge and gathered some capital, she focused on investing in a model of raising egg-laying ducks, commercial ducks, building an incubator combined with growing cinnamon.

Because ducks are raised according to the correct process and food sources are selected, the eggs and commercial ducks of Thuong's family are selected and purchased by traders.

After many years of hard work, learning from experience, the family's economic development model has been expanded to 3 hectares of 7-10 year old cinnamon, a flock of 3,000 ducks, and 3 sao of ponds for raising various types of fish. In addition, she also actively participates in introducing and selling local products on social media channels. From livestock development, plus other sources of income, the family has an annual income of over 200 million VND. Thanks to that, life is stable, many conveniences for daily life can be purchased and savings can be made.

Not only taking care of the family's economic development, Ms. Thuong herself always enthusiastically participates in the movement activities launched by the Women's Union, actively sharing experiences in poverty alleviation and economic development for people in the region. Ready to support people in finding sources of breeds, sources of animal feed to ensure quality and output for products; at the same time, enthusiastically instructing on techniques for caring for and preventing diseases for livestock when needed... With the simple, everyday work of that little Dao girl, it is the joining hands, uniting people of ethnic groups in the region to confidently rise up, create a prosperous life, contributing to building new rural areas in this mountainous area with many difficulties.

Last June, at the 4th Congress of Ethnic Minorities of Yen Lap District - 2024, Trinh Thi Thuong was honored to be one of 26 outstanding individuals to be commended for her outstanding achievements in the district's ethnic minority areas in the period 2019-2024.

Phuong Thao

Source: https://baophutho.vn/nu-nguoi-dao-lam-kinh-te-gioi-222032.htm