On the afternoon of December 15, the Digital Agriculture Association, the Ministry of Information and Communications cooperated with the units and businesses to organize a seminar on “Digital transformation in agriculture”.
Conference on digital transformation in agriculture with the participation of many organizations, businesses and localities. Photo: Tung Dinh
Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that in the past 5 years, the agricultural sector still achieved an average growth rate of 2.71% / year and Export turnover is constantly growing.
In addition, the process of agricultural restructuring has been constantly deployed extensively, going deeply into productivity, quality and value-added. Production organizations are also constantly innovating, the number of enterprises investing in agriculture is increasing more and more, with the increasing scale of modern technology.
In order to achieve the above achievements, in addition to the attention of all levels and sectors, it is necessary to mention the implementation of a system of scientific and technological development solutions to take advantage of the achievements of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation in agriculture. Industry is a comprehensive solution that contributes to improving the efficiency of the whole industry, creating a breakthrough in rapid and sustainable development, increasing added value and efficiency.
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According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, in recent years, the agricultural sector has begun to pay more attention to digital transformation solutions and applications in most fields. In the crop industry, IoT technology, BigData began to be applied through digital products such as software to analyze data about the environment, plant type and growth stage of trees, consumers. can access and monitor these parameters in real time …
With livestock, animal husbandry, IoT technology, blockchain, and biotechnology are widely applied on large-scale livestock farms. The dairy cow breeding industry applies the most digital technology, with the prominent model being the modern farms of TH Group and Vinamilk.
In forestry, to apply vascular DND technology to the management of forest varieties and forest products; GIS technology and remote sensing image to develop software for early detection and forest fire warning from satellite images, software for early detection and detection of deforestation, forest degradation …
Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, Director General of Department of Science, Technology and Environment, MARD, talked about the successes of digital transformation in agriculture over the past time. Photo: Tung Dinh
The director of the Department of Science, Technology and Environment said that the fisheries sector has also strongly transformed such as the use of fish detectors using ultrasonic waves, flow meters, and satellite phones; fin mesh receiver (vertical); net capture system, GIS technology and global positioning system (GPS) help manage offshore fishing fleets.
Meanwhile, aquaculture can apply selective biotechnology, breed high-yield, high-quality varieties that are resistant to diseases, resistant to the environment, and aquaculture technology. complete (RAS), biofloc technology, nanotechnology, marine cage culture technology, cold water fish culture technology.
From a local perspective, Lam Dong is considered as one of the provinces with many achievements in agricultural digital transformation.
Mr. Pham S, Vice Chairman of People’s Committee of Lam Dong Province, said that Vietnam currently has about 12 official IoT solution providers with 52 enterprises using but up to 25 of them are in Lam Dong.
“Lam Dong province regularly organizes knowledge dissemination and technology development, especially through seminars, identifies how high-tech agriculture is applied, what agriculture does, and what to do. trees, what. Since then, through the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to help businesses, people take science and technology as a breakthrough to link production ”, Mr. Pham S shared about Lam Dong’s experience in digitizing agriculture.
On that basis, the province now has a number of successful models in the application of agricultural digital transformation such as Flower Forest Biological Joint Stock Company, Dalat Hasfarm Company, TH Group …
Mr. Pham S, Vice Chairman of Lam Dong Provincial People’s Committee shared about the success of the locality. Photo: Tung Dinh
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Representative of the Digital Agriculture Association (VIDA) participating in the conference, Mr. Than Van Hung, Vice President of VIDA said that the potential of digital transformation in agriculture in Vietnam is huge because of the high support from agencies, ministries, branches to technology enterprises, agricultural enterprises.
Digital transformation has brought positive results not only in quality and productivity, but also significantly improved management and business practices in the agricultural sector.
“For VIDA, the association is having very specific action strategies. It is to support enterprises in the association to access new technologies, introduce technology enterprises such as FPT, VNPT to agricultural enterprises.
In addition, VIDA also gives policy advice to state management agencies such as the Government and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to encourage and support the digital transformation in agriculture. The association also acts as a connection for experts, managers, businesses to discuss and find the optimal solution for the digitization of agriculture ”, Mr. Than Van Hung shared about VIDA’s way.
General Director of Phuc Sinh Joint Stock Company Phan Minh Thong talks about the application of technology in management. Photo: Tung Dinh
As an enterprise that started to implement digital transformation more than 10 years ago, Mr. Phan Minh Thong, General Director of Phuc Sinh Joint Stock Company, said that this process has helped to optimize many activities in the unit.
For example, accounting from 20 people reduced to 4, the work is also guaranteed to meet the plan, less overtime is required, all thanks to the application of modern software to management. Or the application of online sales has also helped the company improve sales in the past.
“Digital transformation in agriculture is a global trend, no one can go against it. Therefore, we must do better because we started out more slowly than the world. To do that, it is necessary to have more investment in technology and software to increase efficiency in management and production in the future ”, Mr. Phan Minh Thong emphasized.
The head of Phuc Sinh Joint Stock Company also shared, regulators are calling for digital transformation and this is a very good signal. However, more support is needed for SMEs because they are struggling so much with the market.
“If the business is not able to pay staff salaries and has to manage to pay suppliers, it is very difficult to invest in technology for digital transformation. Therefore, it is necessary to have policies to support this area ”, Mr. Phan Minh Thong concluded.
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