The ASEAN’s startup community, including Vietnam’s, has great potential, but they still face a multitude of challenges-Photo: Duc Thanh At last week’s World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF on ASEAN 2018) held in Hanoi, Hachi was among the several Vietnamese startups on the list of the most creative startups selected by the WEF to partake in the WEF on ASEAN 2018. “This agritech startup has built more than 12 ‘smart farms’ in Vietnam. They use Internet of Things sensors and a hydroponic system, which is a way of drip-feeding plants water and nutrients, which saves waste. They claim the approach has led to a 300-per-cent increase in productivity,” the WEF explained picking Hachi on its website. During 2015-2016, Nguyen Xuan Truong, the founder of Hachi, began thinking about establishing this startup, when he saw that the domestic foodstuff market was flooded with unsafe products. “I saw that it would be quite feasible to apply IT to … [Read more...] about Vietnam grows into ASEAN startup hub