Vice Chairman of Dong Thap Provincial People’s Committee affirmed, digital transformation increases the value of agricultural production, increases income for farmers. Dong Thap is determined to promote digital adoption and conversion in the coming time.
On the afternoon of October 15, the People’s Committee of Dong Thap province held a seminar “Digital transformation solutions to promote agricultural and rural development” with the participation of the Provincial People’s Committee, the Department of Information Technology (Ministry of Information and Communications) and enterprises.
Dong Thap organized the workshop “Digital transformation solutions to promote agricultural and rural development” |
Support from the Ministry of Information and Communications, Dong Thap is confident in digital transformation
Vice Chairman of Dong Thap Provincial People’s Committee Pham Thien Nghia said that the province had studied very deeply the draft Resolution and document of the 13th Congress. In which, the Party proposed a policy to strongly transform the number and apply the model. digital economy. In September, the province signed an agreement with the Ministry of Information and Communications and the ministry will support the development of a digital transformation strategy and the development of a digital economic model.
Dong Thap organized a start-up and innovation seminar and was conveyed by experts on fields related to digital transformation and developing digital economic models.
In the near future, the province will continue to organize in-depth seminars to go into each field.
Mr. Nghia explained further, after the Ministry of Information and Communications develops the strategy, the province will immediately begin to deepen the digital government. In the field of business economics, Dong Thap also chooses the first focus area is agriculture.
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Mr. Nghia affirmed that Dong Thap was determined to promote digital adoption and transformation in the coming time |
Before that, the province “nurtured” the prerequisites to develop conditions such as establishment of guilds. In particular, the guilds are equipped with smartphones, the system of direct transmission screen.
“Do not think that farming is not related to digital transformation and the digital economy is all related, so we cannot stand outside,” said Vice Chairman of Dong Thap People’s Committee.
Digital transformation improves the value of agricultural production
Mr. Nguyen Huu Hanh, Deputy Director of the Department of Information Technology (Ministry of Information and Communications), said that Dong Thap has many strengths in human resources and resources in digital transformation, along with the National Digital Transformation Scheme. convenient department for the province to accomplish this goal.
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Mr. Nguyen Huu Hanh presented the digital transformation direction for Dong Thap |
In the agricultural sector, Mr. Hanh also offers many benefits when converting numbers, such as accurate market demand forecasting, product supply prediction, minimizing production costs, optimizing fertilizer costs. , irrigation, especially helping to accomplish the things that humans cannot do such as: Monitoring the status of crops and animals continuously, analyzing a wide area of weather, humidity, pests; From the conversion of the number of agriculture, it will create added value, can be traced back, track the growth, and expand the consumer market.
Deputy Director of Dong Thap Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Vo Thanh Ngoan said that it has initially applied some smart technologies in agricultural production.
For example, the application of information technology to connect the market, traceability, digitalized irrigation infrastructure and the application of MapInfow software to manage and monitor the dyke system; Applying online disease reporting software to epidemic reporting on livestock …
However, according to Mr. Ngoan, the initial results of the digital transformation in Agriculture and Rural Development are respectable, but not much, the adaptation to the digital economy to apply in the implementation of agricultural restructuring associated with construction Building a new countryside is still a challenge, the application of information technology to support production, processing, and consumption of agricultural products in the province is still quite modest.
At the seminar, Dr. Nguyen Thanh My, Chairman of Rynan Technologies Vietnam Joint Stock Company introduced to farmers and delegates new modern equipment such as: innovative gas packaging technology, membrane and multi-layer tray. High gas is aimed at helping to increase the time to preserve agricultural products, innovative gas packaging machines, traceability printers, and notably smart devices combining artificial intelligence in shrimp production …

Solve “pain” behind Dong Thap by digital conversion
Dare to volunteer to pilot new things to make breakthroughs in digital transformation will be the fastest way for Dong Thap province to solve the “pain” behind.
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