HAPPY ORGANIC FARMING - HO CHI MINH

THEME/TYPE OF PROJECT: Working at Organic Farm AIMS OF THE PROJECT: The aim of the program is to provide Friendly environment for Volunteer and having the chance for cultural exchange with local people while learning about techniques to operate a professional organic farm. PROJECT’S ACTIVITIES: This organic farm was established in 2013 in out-skirt of Ho Chi Minh city. Organic farming is a cultivation system based on the natural biological cycle of the ecosystem, biodiversity that suit climatic conditions and local soil, combined with traditional farming science and technology; without the usage of synthetic chemicals (such as plant protection products, growth regulators, chemical fertilizers …) in order to create products that are suitable to the benefit of people and the environment, protecting the well-being of man, land and ecosystems. In order to bring healthy product to customer, the core members of this project has been working strenuously to reach their dream. After 4 years of effort doing research, investment, and standardizing the process of growing vegetables organically, the current vegetable garden is now nearly 5000 m2, in Tan Binh district, has become reach a stable output of over 10 kinds of leaf vegetables and some kind of fruits. The farm’s products are grown in natural harmony by re-balancing the ecological environment for cultivation of crops. Pest control by using natural traditional methods (which are empirically proven in the scientific assess