HALOFAI is a climate change-adapted sustainable saline agriculture startup based in Ca Mau. The company was founded by a young, enthusiastic and experienced team in the agriculture and fishery industry. We bring a completely new farming solution that is to use salt water to irrigate crops to limit damage and increase farmers’ livelihoods in the face of saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta and coastal provinces.
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY OF HALOFAI – FLAVOR FROM SALINE SOIL
- Taking agriculture as the foundation:
Vietnam is a country with great strength in agriculture, especially the rice industry. This is also an important economic sector of the country in general and the Mekong Delta in particular. However, in the past few years, climate change, drought, and saltwater intrusion are taking place increasingly fiercely, causing severe consequences, making many areas of rice, fruit trees, hydroponics crops and vegetables were damaged, both agricultural production and people’s daily life were negatively affected. Leads to food insecurity.
- Agriculture is not merely the production of agricultural products:
As one of the countries heavily affected by climate change, Vietnam has actively and actively participated in dealing with the common global challenge of climate change in many ways. Typically, afforestation and greening of saline lands like the way that HALOFAI – the first brand in Vietnam to grow and develop salt-tolerant plants is doing. Besides, HALOFAI is also a company with a carbon credit business orientation. The development of the Carbon market will help create the livelihoods of people and forest owners and at the same time realize the goal of forest protection and development.
- Modern trends in the world today:
Entering the era of high-tech agriculture, people not only need to eat well but also eat clean. The use of food of unknown origin, containing chemical ingredients that are harmful to human health in the long run, has become a great concern for consumers. Meanwhile, the development trend of the modern world today is always accompanied by an increased risk of chronic diseases. These are diseases that cannot be prevented by vaccines, but need to be done by adding vitamins, minerals, and nutrition in a reasonable way. Therefore, the demand for clean food, nutrients and herbs is being favored by people around the world.
From the above fact, HALOFAI has set out methodical strategies for the long-term development of the company:
– In the future, the situation of drought and salinity will be complicated, fresh water resources are scarce. HALOFAI chooses to develop saline agriculture by using the abundant available salt water. At the same time, cultivate and develop products extracted from plants irrigated with salt water. Thereby, creating vitamins and nutrients necessary for human health.
– HALOFAI is determined to strive to 2025 with a vision to 2030 to become the leading company in Vietnam in sustainable circular saltwater economy, and in the top 20 companies in agriculture adapting to climate change in the world. gender.
– HALOFAI‘s mission is to explore barren, deserted, saline lands into green fields of raw materials. HALOFAI will work with the people to create quality products with characteristics of the Mekong Delta in general and Ca Mau in particular.
– The core value that is also the most important thing that HALOFAI aims at is taking the farmer as the foundation and determined to serve the community in the best way.