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Meli Green Farm: three siblings turned a coffee hillside into Lâm Hà's first hydroponic farm, starting "just to feed the family"

Meli Green Farm: ba chị em biến đồi cà phê thành nông trại thủy canh đầu tiên của Lâm Hà, bắt đầu "để gia đình ăn"

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Meli Green Farm Cooperative · Mê Linh, Lâm Hà, Lâm Đồng · meligreenfarm.com

The idea came from Singapore. Nguyễn Thị Thu Trang's sister and brother-in-law lived there and wanted chemical-free vegetables for the family. The three siblings pooled more than VND 6 billion and built greenhouses on an old coffee plot in Mê Linh commune. The name Meli is Mê Linh folded into Green Farm. "First of all it was for the family to eat; then, if it worked, we would look to the outside market," Trang told Báo Lâm Đồng.

She taught herself from books and newspapers and went to look at farms in Đà Lạt and Bảo Lộc. In the early days, short on experience and at the mercy of erratic weather, she lost more than a third of the crop. In March 2023 the cooperative was formed with seven members, the first in Lâm Hà district to grow vegetables hydroponically.

No soil, no pesticides, water that goes round again

More than 5,000 m² of greenhouses house four recirculating hydroponics units built to Israeli standards and run automatically, with around 70,000 plants growing at any one time. No soil, no pesticides, no chemical fertiliser; surplus water is collected in a tank and reused, the substrate trays are cleaned and used again, and the seedlings are raised in-house. "Once the plastic trays go into the water pipes, we have a harvest just 30 days later," says one of the farm's workers. Every day Meli cuts 2,000 to 2,500 heads of green and purple lollo, crystal lettuce, Romaine, Tokyo Bekana, choy sum, spinach and bok choy, some 500 to 800 kg, delivered by refrigerated truck to Bách hóa Xanh, Đồng Xanh Group, VietFarm and supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City, the Central Highlands, the Mekong Delta and Hà Nội. Nearly ten local workers earn around VND 6 million a month. The cooperative is applying for OCOP certification and has its eye on Japan, Korea and Singapore.

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A mid-sized clean-vegetable farm that can walk you through every step of what it does is exactly what the restaurants, hotels and importers at Lumi Hub on the morning of 04.11.2026 want to hear.

Video · 0:27 · Green business stories: Meli Green Farm · Chuyện doanh nghiệp xanh: Meli Green Farm · Ăn Chay TV

Green Business Matching Day Vietnam is co-organised by INCHAM with Canopus, AnChay.TV and Chay Vietnam, with the support of the Consulate General of India in Ho Chi Minh City, Ministry of External Affairs of India.

Based on material provided by the company; compiled by the organisers of Green Business Matching Day Vietnam as a gift to the businesses that joined the day.

Meli Green Farm: ba chị em biến đồi cà phê thành nông trại thủy canh đầu tiên của Lâm Hà, bắt đầu "để gia đình ăn"

Hợp tác xã Meli Green Farm · Mê Linh, Lâm Hà, Lâm Đồng · meligreenfarm.com

Ý tưởng đến từ Singapore. Chị gái và anh rể của chị Nguyễn Thị Thu Trang sống ở đó, muốn có rau sạch không hóa chất cho gia đình. Ba chị em góp vốn, hơn 6 tỷ đồng, dựng nhà kính trên một mảnh đất cà phê cũ ở xã Mê Linh. Tên Meli là Mê Linh ghép với Green Farm. "Trước hết là để gia đình sử dụng, sau đó, nếu thành công sẽ hướng tới thị trường bên ngoài," chị Trang kể với Báo Lâm Đồng.

Chị tự học qua sách báo, đi xem vườn ở Đà Lạt, Bảo Lộc. Giai đoạn đầu thiếu kinh nghiệm, thời tiết thất thường, mất hơn một phần ba sản lượng. Tháng 3.2023, hợp tác xã ra đời với 7 thành viên, hợp tác xã đầu tiên của huyện Lâm Hà trồng rau thủy canh.

Không đất, không thuốc, nước tuần hoàn

Hơn 5.000 m² nhà kính với bốn nhà thủy canh hồi lưu theo chuẩn Israel, điều khiển tự động, khoảng 70.000 cây rau cùng lúc. Không đất, không thuốc bảo vệ thực vật, không phân hóa học; nước thừa gom về bể tái sử dụng, hộp giá thể được vệ sinh dùng lại, giống tự ươm. "Sau khi đặt các hộp nhựa vào ống nước, chỉ 30 ngày sau chúng tôi đã có thu hoạch," một nhân viên của trại nói. Mỗi ngày Meli cắt 2.000–2.500 cây xà lách lô lô xanh, lô lô tím, thủy tinh, Romaine, cải Tokyo Bekana, cải ngọt, bó xôi, cải thìa, tương đương 500–800 kg, giao bằng xe lạnh cho Bách hóa Xanh, Đồng Xanh Group, VietFarm và siêu thị ở TP. Hồ Chí Minh, Tây Nguyên, miền Tây, Hà Nội. Gần 10 lao động địa phương làm việc với lương khoảng 6 triệu đồng. Hợp tác xã đang đăng ký OCOP và hướng tới Nhật, Hàn, Singapore.

Tại Green Business Matching Day

Một nông trại rau sạch quy mô vừa, có thể kể từng bước mình làm, là điều các nhà hàng, khách sạn và nhà nhập khẩu tại Lumi Hub sáng 04.11.2026 muốn nghe.

Green Business Matching Day Vietnam do INCHAM đồng tổ chức với Canopus, Ăn Chay TV và Chay Vietnam, với sự hỗ trợ từ phía Tổng Lãnh sự quán Ấn Độ tại TP. Hồ Chí Minh, thuộc Bộ Ngoại giao Ấn Độ.

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