Ms. Nguyen Thi Duyen and her husband, Mr. Nguyen Duc Chinh, used to have stable jobs at the Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences, but they decided to leave the city for the countryside to make their dream of growing organic vegetables come true.
Duyen holds a Master’s degree in agriculture from Australia, and Chinh earned a postgraduate degree in Australia before becoming a PhD candidate in biology in Japan. The couple decided to resign from their government jobs to devote themselves fully to the organic vegetable farming that they are so passionate about.
In 2019, they started looking for farmland, and in 2020 they found a hectare of deserted land in Hiep Thuan commune, Phuc Tho district, Hanoi. The farm was isolated…