How it all started ..

Fargreen was established in 2015 by a Vietnamese social entrepreneur Trang Tran in Vietnam.

Fargreen is a project for her MBA study at Colorado State University. She was inspired to use business as a tool to solve social and environmental problems sustainably. Trang focused her project at addressing the common practice of openly burning rice straw after harvest and finding a sustainable solution for the farmers, local community, and the environment.

Her passion and inspiration to build Fargreen stemmed from her personal experience of living in a small rice farming town in Northern Vietnam. She understood the importance of rice cultivation as well as the impact of the traditional method of open burning after harvest to the environment.

“Growing up in Northern Vietnam, I saw massive change happening everywhere in the country, starting from my very own small hometown. For economic reasons, the local government filled half of the river at the back of my parents’ home – the beautiful river my dad used to carry me on his back to swim across every day. Once the source of drinking water for all, it’s now unsuitable for swimming, undrinkable, unbreathable dark flow. I witnessed the air quality worsen, the weather become more unpredictable, and the surrounding farming communities shrink as farmers left towns in search of big-city jobs because farming alone couldn’t support them.

I couldn’t wrap my head around the logic behind what people had done in the name of ‘development’. And that sparked my passion to engage in international development work – hoping that one day I could do something truly helpful for the community I love.

Trang’s first hand experience fueled her to find a solution - a sustainable solution that would benefit the entire community and Vietnam as a country.

The Vision

Fargreen envisions a future where we have made a difference to: