[0:01]Vietnam, we are number three in the world to export shrimp, but 100 million people in the country eat bad shrimp every day. That's wrong. And the farmers, wherever they do shrimp farming, they use so much energy, so much water, and so much land. There's a lot of pollution. Something has to be changed. Before 2020, I did not know anything about shrimps. And then, when I got into it, I said, "Wow! Shrimp has a big potential". I used to be a scientist, entrepreneur. Now I am a shrimp farmers.
[0:51]I live in the island of Co Chien river. Every day, I have to take boat to cross the rivers and I see so much garbage in the water and people lack of responsibility to keep clean. And it hurts me. It's sad to see that.
[1:33]The farmers, they have to invent themselves. Otherwise, they will be left behind. They will be outdated. So, the first time I went to the shrimp farm, I saw a lot of wrong physics.
[1:50]I walked into the shrimp pond, and it reminded me of the blender making smoothie. So noisy, and everything is mixed up.
[2:01]On the way back to my company, I came up with a thousand ideas in my head on how to improve the life of the farmers here.
[2:37]We came up with a paradigm. We named it TOMGOXY. In Vietnamese, “tôm” is shrimp. G is “giàu”, means rich. So, TOMGOXY - tôm rich oxy. Oxygen, you know. We develop smart devices. For example, sensing devices to make sure of water quality. You know, water is very important for shrimp farming. That's why we have to treat water to clean it, and very carefully. Now we do it automatically? Yes. Automatically.
[3:27]For us, it's all automatic. You just program it and it will run automatically.
[4:00]The current farming, they're using 80% land for water treatment and only 20% for shrimp grow out ponds. In TOMGOXY, we use only 50% of the land for water treatment and 50% for shrimp growth. You'll be able to increase the shrimp yield by over 20 times. When the farmers came here, they didn't see any air bubbles, they didn't see noise, and they didn't see the paddle wheels that they seeing every day. So they doubt what we are doing. It takes some time for them to digest.
[4:38]Let's take some water. Slowly. Wow! High-quality shrimps. In Vietnam, 3G - 4G is everywhere. We develop softwares or apps that are easy to use for the farmers with mobile phones to monitor remotely. It's convenient. And also it's not very expensive.
[5:12]Now we're farming shrimps for a greener future. Research and development is very important for the future of shrimp farming.
[5:34]You have to know the shrimp to grow it better. Even here in a small tank like this, we can learn the behavior of shrimps as well.
[7:42]All the good shrimps are exported. The shrimps that do not meet the safety standards of the USA or European countries are returned back to Vietnam and they sell to the local market. The question I am asking is, "Why you are number three in the world to export shrimp, and a hundred million Vietnamese people in the country eat bad shrimps every day? That's wrong.
[8:14]To farm the shrimps and to bring them to the customers directly, I mean, we have to come up with packaging technology.
[8:33]We try to give the power back to the consumers. They feel safe when they purchase shrimps from our farms.
[8:47]The more difficulties, the more opportunities you get. And that's what I found it here in my hometown. The biggest dream is all the farmers have a peaceful mind when they do shrimp farming and reduce the hardship when they are working at the farm by using technology.
[9:10]The core values of our company are transparency, creativity, social responsibility.
[9:20]I'd like the community here to have a better life. That's a dream, it's a better life, a better place to live, better food to eat, safer food to eat.
