(MARD) – On the afternoon of August 19, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communications held the launching ceremony of “Digital transformation of agriculture and rural development”, announcing the implementation of the system. information and database for granting and managing planting area codes.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien – Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for the Agricultural Digital Transformation Program said that implementing the National Digital Transformation Program approved by the Prime Minister in Decision 749/ QD-TTg, over the past time, the Ministry has drastically directed the implementation of building the industry’s digital platform system, such as: Agricultural product traceability system; information system and database for management of animal feed and livestock establishments; system of granting database, managing planting area codes… in order to gradually realize the goal of building a “transparent – responsible – sustainable” agriculture. Initially, Vietnam has built a foundation for agriculture and rural digital transformation, put it into operation, and caught up with the changes of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. Thereby improving the value of Vietnam’s agricultural products domestically and internationally.
Currently, the whole country has 4.8 million hectares of cultivated area, including: fruit trees, rice production and industrial plants. In which, there are about 4,000 growing areas and 2,000 packing facilities that have been granted codes. However, in order to fully connect information between production and market, it is necessary to accelerate the digital transformation in the field of cultivation to improve efficiency between production, market and consumers. Therefore, the implementation of an information system and database of growing areas is a new step in agriculture, moving from agricultural production to agricultural economy.
Right at the launching ceremony of the Information System and Database for Granting and Management of Planting Area Codes, through an online screen, Mr. Ngo Van Tin – representative of Bang Binh Joint Stock Company (Binh Thuan province) tried Connect to the system to register information about the business.
Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan assessed that these are the first steps of digital transformation on the journey of transforming thinking from agricultural production to agricultural economy. ; building a brand for agricultural products by removing the ambiguity about the management agency, origin, quality… By digital transformation, it will also remove the ambiguity in agricultural production, build a brand to Vietnamese agricultural products move towards transparency, integrating images, emotions, multimedia into products…
Source: HNN (mard.gov.vn)
