VietNamNet Bridge - Ta Dinh Huy, a 34-year-old farmer, has successfully made a machine with 12 functions which can help ease farmers’ workload.

Huy began working on the multifunctional machine in 2005 after a long time of reading documents on the internet, analyzing machinery models and watching farmers ploughing and raking on rice fields. 

Following a succession of failures, Huy finally created a machine which can do tillage. After that, he created two more functions – spraying pesticide and pumping water.

However, Huy was not really satisfied with the first-generation machine which was cumbersome and inefficient and could only work on flat soil. 

In 2010, Huy decided to give up his job as a motorbike repairer, though his business was good, to spend all of his time to upgrade the machine.

Ta Dinh Huy, a 34-year-old farmer, has successfully made a machine with 12 functions which can help ease farmers’ workload.

He then had to travel to many provinces and rural areas throughout the country to learn about soil and workforce conditions. 

In 2014, Huy introduced his a machine which had eight functions – ploughing, raking, turning over the soil, splitting beds, sowing, weeding, spraying pesticide and irrigating.

“I burst into tears when the machine ran perfectly as I wanted because I invented a machine which could help ease farmers’ hard work.

After applying for a patent for the 8-in-1 agriculture machine, Huy became famous throughout the country. The invention is highly appreciated for its high technical and economic efficiency. 

The outstanding characteristic of the machine is that it is cheap, priced at between several million dong and VND13 million, depending on the number of functions. 

But it is very strong with power five times more than that of a buffalo’s and 10 times that of a man.

Having becoming famous for the machine, Huy has still decided to continue upgrading it.

The machine has become ’12-in-1’ instead of ‘8-in1’. The latest-generation machine can do four more types of work - digging coffee mud, turning over fertilizer, transplanting rice seedlings and carrying heavy things within gardens.

What makes Huy feel proud about his machine is that it can do all 12 works on different kinds of terrain.

“One man can weed on an area of 5 mau (1 mau = 3,600 square meters) with the machine. He needs only 30 minutes to spray pesticide on one hectare of field,” he said.

According to Dang Dinh Trac, deputy chair of Thuong Vuc commune People’s Committee, the 12-in-1 machine has been very favored by local farmers. 

About 100 households in the locality now use the machines. Meanwhile, Huy said he has churned out 1,000 machines in the last three years to fulfill orders from farmers throughout the country.

Kham Pha