{"id":6871,"date":"2016-09-03T06:37:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2016-09-03T06:37:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:37:48","slug":"du-hoc-sinh-phap-ve-viet-nam-lam-hoa-sen-uop-tuoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/du-hoc-sinh-phap-ve-viet-nam-lam-hoa-sen-uop-tuoi\/","title":{"rendered":"A Student Returning from France Makes Preserved Fresh Lotus Flowers in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dreaming of taking lotus flowers across all five continents, young Ng\u00f4 Ch\u00ed C\u00f4ng from \u0110\u1ed3ng Th\u00e1p decided to pool all the money he saved while studying in France to start a preserved fresh flower business.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"ngo-chi-cong\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ng\u00f4 Ch\u00ed C\u00f4ng<\/span><\/p>\n

His dream of being his own boss began at school, so after studying in France for 7 years, Ng\u00f4 Ch\u00ed C\u00f4ng, born in 1989 and holding a master\u2019s degree in chemical technology, immediately ventured into business. Initially, C\u00f4ng pooled capital with friends who had studied with him in France to open a pastry shop in Ho Chi Minh City. After a year of poor performance, he decided to transfer the business and return to \u0110\u1ed3ng Th\u00e1p.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018During a trip to \u0110\u00e0 L\u1ea1t, I discovered that everlasting roses were sold there and learned that artisan Nguy\u1ec5n C\u00f4ng H\u00f3a made these products. I visited him and came up with the idea of creating preserved fresh lotus flowers, hoping to preserve and promote the image of our homeland's lotus flowers in both domestic and global markets,\u2019 C\u00f4ng said.<\/span><\/p>\n

C\u00f4ng said he began making fresh-preserved lotus flowers in mid-2015 with an initial investment of nearly one billion dong. He had saved some of this money while studying abroad and borrowed the rest from relatives. Initially, he sent materials to artisan H\u00f3a for processing and purchased all the finished products.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"hoa-sen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fresh-preserved lotus flowers can last a year without losing their color or darkening<\/span><\/p>\n

What distinguishes preserved fresh lotus flowers from ordinary flowers is their storage life. While regular fresh lotuses last only 1\u20132 days, preserved ones can last a year without wilting, fading or blackening. \u2018This is a gift I want to create to bring the image of \u0110\u1ed3ng Th\u00e1p lotuses around the world. It is also a keepsake tourists can retain after visiting \u0110\u1ed3ng Th\u00e1p and Vietnam,\u2019 C\u00f4ng shared.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because this was a new product being tested for the first time, few people knew about preserved fresh lotus flowers, making commercialization much more difficult. C\u00f4ng had to invest considerable time and money in developing and promoting the product. Yet sales were not very promising, and almost a year later C\u00f4ng was still operating at a loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDespite mounting difficulties with investment capital, personnel, and the market, I have never once thought of giving up. Customer complaints show us where we are falling short and how to improve. Once we succeed in preserving freshly scented lotus flowers for around a year, we may soon be able to perfect the way the color spreads across the petals over time,\u201d C\u00f4ng shared.<\/span><\/p>\n

C\u00f4ng\u2019s preserved fresh lotus flowers are now sold in \u0110\u1ed3ng Th\u00e1p and at a shop on L\u00ea Quang \u0110\u1ecbnh Street in B\u00ecnh Th\u1ea1nh District, Ho Chi Minh City, at a volume of 500\u2013800 flowers per month and a price of 129,000 dong each. C\u00f4ng also partners with a Vietnamese-goods shop in Paris, France, to display and sell the products there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides making preserved fresh lotus flowers, C\u00f4ng also makes ceramic vases using hydrographic dipping technology, releasing 300\u2013400 products each month at prices from 200,000 to over one million dong per vase.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the products have become better known in the market, C\u00f4ng said their production costs are quite high, so this entrepreneur born in the 1980s has yet to break even with his business model. However, the profits earned do partly offset product costs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Discussing this year's plans, C\u00f4ng said he would first perfect the preserved lotus product and find ways to reduce its price to the most reasonable level. He would seek funding to build a workshop and expand into Buddhist countries such as Cambodia and Myanmar\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

C\u00f4ng is also researching several dried flowers from \u0110\u1ed3ng Th\u00e1p, including Sa \u0110\u00e9c roses, lisianthus, and orchids, to serve the domestic market and work toward exports.<\/span><\/p>\n

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V\u1edbi \u01b0\u1edbc m\u01a1 mang hoa sen \u0111i kh\u1eafp n\u0103m ch\u00e2u, ch\u00e0ng trai Ng\u00f4 Ch\u00ed C\u00f4ng (\u0110\u1ed3ng Th\u00e1p) quy\u1ebft \u0111\u1ecbnh gom h\u1ebft s\u1ed1 ti\u1ec1n d\u00e0nh d\u1ee5m \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c khi du h\u1ecdc \u1edf Ph\u00e1p \u0111\u1ec3 kh\u1edfi nghi\u1ec7p v\u1edbi hoa \u01b0\u1edbp t\u01b0\u01a1i. Ng\u00f4 Ch\u00ed C\u00f4ng \u01af\u1edbc m\u01a1 l\u00e0m ch\u1ee7 \u0111\u01b0\u1ee3c nhen nh\u00f3m t\u1eeb khi c\u00f2n ng\u1ed3i tr\u00ean gh\u1ebf nh\u00e0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6874,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/6874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}