An organic vegetable growing area covering more than 3,000m², owned by 55- year-old Huynh Kim Toan from Khue My Ward, Ngu Hanh Son District, is among Da Nang’s most outstanding agricultural production models featuring the successful application of science and technology in farming.

Mr Toan is seen operating his multifunctional gardening system at his own organic vegetable growing area

It is worth praising that a built-in 6-in-1 multifunctional system applied in this notable model was completed researched and created by Mr Toan himself.

Just by pressing the control button, the gardening system will automatically follow the preset tracks to serve production processes, namely soil tillage, seeding, watering, spreading manure, sun-shading and vegetable transportation so as to save time and efforts in agricultural production.

Having graduated from mechanical engineering at the Da Nang University of Science and Technology, Mr Toan worked for many companies across the country. However, soon after, the former engineer decided to quit his well-paid job for his return to Da Nang and then risked everything to grow his start-up business on agricultural production.

Understanding the fact that local farmers must have been through lots of hard labour, the strong-willed man came up with the idea of creating an automatic gardening machine. Thanks to this, the quality of crops could be always guaranteed, meeting the Viet Nam Good Agricultural Practices (VietGap) standards, generating a stable output and gaining local consumers’ trusts.

Last September, the first automatic gardening system featuring 6 functions was born. During its operation processes, the machine enthusiast set his mind on perfecting this product, with a focus on applying solar energy in order to save electricity.

In particular, the function ‘moisture sensor’ whereby vegetables are automatically watered if needed.

“When the humidity sensor is added to the system, so that the system automatically performs the watering function on vegetable beds that lack moisture. If enough, the system will automatically bypass,” said Toan.

Since the system was put into operation, every day, Mr Toan's own garden harvests a total of 30kg of vegetables which are then supplied to the local market. Encouragingly, he earns between 15 and 20 million worth of a monthly profit.

Before the system was made available, Toan’s family had to either spend some money on hiring workers to water crops or do it by themselves under the scorching heat blanketing the central region.

Mr Huynh Ngoc Hoan, the Chairman of Ngu Hanh Son District Farmers’ Association highly lauded Mr Toan’s brainchild for its high effectiveness as it has created a stable source of income for local farmers.

By VAN HOANG- Translated by A.T