It is fact that today’s billionaire Ba Son came from a very poor background. It is told that Ba Son cannot forget the image of his poor homeland of Ben Tre Province. He was orphaned when he was young and had to live with his maternal grandmother. He had to work hard to earn a living and take care of his younger brothers.
It is informed that Ba Son went to Thu Duc, HCMC with his grandmother to work. He went to school in the morning and sold flowers with his grandmother in An Dong Market from the afternoon until the evening. Ba Son did not own land to plant flowers so he had to borrow money from his relatives in order to rent land.
After many failures in planting flowers, he was still poor and fell into debt. He decided to study ways to plant flowers and he was patient enough to graft apricot trees until he achieved success. He produced apricot trees that nobody else had. When he achieved success, he started expanding his business and saved money to buy land.
It is said that at present Ba Son has around 60,000 apricot trees and created jobs for 30 workers, each with an income of VND2 million per month. He had escaped his impoverished background and became a successful farmer. Ba Son said most planters have their own secrets to planting flowers and trees but all have a common love of their job, are all hard working, patient and take care of their apricot trees.
