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Today\\u2019s episode is with Nancy Tran, Co-founder and CEO of Medifood.io, Vietnam.
\\n\\nMedifood started by supplying organic vegetables on a subscription basis but now produces healthy rice crispy snacks that are sold via subscription boxes.\\xa0
\\n\\nBesides producing for Vietnam, her rice crispy snacks are now available in North America.
\\n\\nPrior to founding the business, Nancy was as market analyst at VNDIRECT Securities and marketing team lead at VEAS Exhibition & Advertising Services with focus on developing markets such as Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in the agriculture sector.\\xa0
\\n\\nNancy started Medifood in 2016 because she was passionate about healthy eating and helping Vietnamese farmers earn a better living except that she didn\\u2019t know a thing about agriculture and organic farming.
\\n\\nIn today\\u2019s episode, she talks about the struggles of farming and why farmers ate chemical-free vegetables while they supplied chemical-laden vegetables to the market.
\\n\\nShe talks about the separate plot of land that farmers kept to grow their own organic vegetables for their family\\u2019s needs. She started by buying these organic produce and selling them to the city.\\xa0
\\n\\nWhile she grew a community of enthusiastic believers in organic farming from buyers to farmers, she couldn\\u2019t make the business work. She was underpricing her vegetables and the work was tough. In the end, she decided to pivot from her original idea to manufacturing food products using organic ingredients grown by the local farmers.\\xa0
\\n\\nToday, Medifood is a platform where you buy tasty and nutritious snacks and still help local farmers sustain themselves through organic and natural farming.
\\n\\nFor the full show notes and links, visit WomenpreneurAsia.com
\\n\\nThis episode is brought to you by Redbox Studio.
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