Starting a business with livelihood models not only helps entrepreneurs earn more income but also creates jobs for many local workers. Initially, these models bring positive signals, helping many people have more motivation to get rich right in their homeland.
SHUKHA Company Limited aims to create jobs for 10-20 workers by 2025 - Photo: HN
“Innovation through deep processing of banana trees for the low-lying areas of Hai Phong, Hai Lang, Quang Tri and creating more livelihoods for local workers” is one of the highly appreciated projects at the province's 2024 Innovation and Startup Competition.
By creating premium chocolate-covered banana products with different flavors, SUKHA Company Limited targets many domestic and international customers with a commitment to creating products with beautiful designs and guaranteed quality. The company's main products include dried bananas; green banana powder; dried bananas covered with chocolate (about to be launched).
Ms. Ngo Thi Hanh (born in 1994) - project representative - has 8 years of experience in the field of human resource management at a software company in Da Nang. She shared: "My colleagues and I want to develop our hometown after a period of working, so we decided to establish SUKHA Co., Ltd. and SUKHA FARM factory to realize this dream. Our company specializes in dried fruit snacks and healthy nutritional foods."
According to Ms. Hanh, the project's vision is to create a flexible and sustainable agricultural development ecosystem for delta areas that are often affected by natural disasters. Through that, the project contributes to creating jobs for workers in difficult circumstances, the weak or disadvantaged in the locality; investing in the young generation to contribute to the development of quality human resources in the future. Currently, the project creates jobs for 3 local workers; supports 5 orphans in Hai Phong commune, Hai Lang district. In 2025, the project will create jobs for 10-20 workers. The company's revenue target is 75 million VND in the fourth quarter of 2024, as soon as it opens for sale.
Hai Phong commune is a low-lying plain, where people mainly work in agriculture. Before starting the project, the authors raised the following questions: with two rice crops a year, can it meet the living standards and needs of the people in the commune? What activities and resource coordination are needed to orientate the creation of an agricultural ecosystem for community tourism development? What can be done to develop more commercial products from raw materials in the province to increase the demand for jobs for disadvantaged households during their free time and during the flood season?
To solve the above questions, the group of young people decided to implement the project "Innovation through deep processing of banana trees for the low-lying areas of Hai Phong, Hai Lang, Quang Tri and create more livelihoods for local workers".
Ms. Hanh said that the project implemented in Hai Phong commune will help people earn more income if they exploit the abundant raw materials in the province. Specifically, Quang Tri province has a large banana raw material area in Tan Long commune, Huong Hoa district with an area of over 1,800 hectares, this area nationwide is about 150,000 hectares (according to preliminary statistics of the Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry in 2023).
SHUKHA Co., Ltd. will purchase raw materials from farmers in Tan Long and Hai Phong communes and has its own policy on sustainable development for the people through the company's development roadmap. "Thus, the project is not afraid of a shortage of raw materials for year-round production. Instead of pursuing familiar products such as regular dried bananas, SUKHA relies on human resources with good expertise to create more innovative and creative products, which can be sold at higher prices. Importantly, our project is suitable for the scale of small and medium enterprises as well as production capacity at this time," Ms. Hanh expressed.
Since 2021, Tay Son Clean Agriculture Cooperative has successfully researched fish protein feed as raw material and combined it with other raw materials from agricultural products, agricultural by-products and applied microbial preparations to create mixed microbial feed as a nutritious food source for livestock farming.
By 2022, the Cooperative will apply technical advances in machinery, technological equipment, and packaging to produce the product "Tay Son mixed microbial feed". Up to now, each year the Cooperative produces more than 300 tons of Tay Son mixed microbial feed to serve members and associated farms, contributing to saving 30% of production costs and minimizing environmental impacts. Recently, Tay Son Cooperative participated in a startup competition with the project "Successfully producing Tay Son mixed microbial feed from agricultural products and by-products for livestock farming".
According to Mr. Nguyen Dang Vuong, representative of the author group, this project aims to replicate the model of applying Pro-QTMIC microbial products combining agricultural by-products to create fish protein and raw materials to produce animal feed with sufficient nutritional components, not depending on industrial bran. At the same time, applying technological equipment to deep processing of animal feed, prolonging product preservation time.
In addition to economic efficiency, through the products produced by Tay Son Cooperative and brought to the market, it has contributed to solving employment for many local workers. Currently, with the scale of supplying the market with more than 300 tons of Tay Son mixed microbial feed each year, the jobs of 25 members of the Cooperative and associated farms are guaranteed.
According to the plan, this project will increase productivity to 500 tons by 2025, leading to an increase in the need for job creation. In addition, the project has the idea of replicating the model of applying microbial preparations according to the Project "Application of microbial preparations in agricultural production in the period of 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030 in Quang Tri province", to farming households throughout the province.
Mr. Nguyen Dang Vuong said: We are ready to transfer technology to farmers in the production of organic microbial feed to help them innovate their production thinking; use agricultural products and by-products effectively, while solving employment and increasing income for workers.
Minh Thao
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/phat-trien-mo-hinh-sinh-ke-tao-viec-lam-qua-cac-du-an-khoi-nghiep-190324.htm
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