(HBO) – Though about 80 percent of Hoa Binh’s population are earning their living from agriculture, the sector makes up only 20 percent of its Gross Regional Domestic Products (GRDP). The mountainous province is pinning high hopes on digital transformation to shift the smallholding agriculture to an economy that goes towards sustainable development.
Photo: Hoa Binh’s provincial post cooperates with farmers to offer local specialty – Cao Phong orange – on e-commerce platforms.
Over recent years, Hoa Binh has paid more attention to developing clean and hi-tech farming models in three areas of horticulture, husbandry, and processing. The province has been actively deploying a number of digital systems managing agricultural and rural database.
A highlight among these is a natural disaster warning system providing hourly updates on rainfall information on vinarain.vn. They also include a disease monitoring statistics system, a system managing database on agricultural land at datnongnghiep.hoabinh.gov.vn, and a system for traceability of goods’ origin and buyer-seller linking in the province at hb.check.net.vn.
Additionally, information on agriculture has been provided to locals via four websites of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. With these websites, farmers can look for information on farming techniques, prices of agricultural products, high farming technologies, and disease prevention, among others, to improve productivity and efficiency.
Nguyen Huu Tai, head of the division on management of agricultural, forestry and fishery quality, said his office is cooperating with several Vietnamese e-commerce sites, such as Postmart.vn (Vietnam Post), Voso.vn (Viettel Post), and Sendo.vn (FPT), to sell local farm products online. Thirty-one agribusinesses and cooperatives in Hoa Binh have joined Postmart.vn so far and 53 participated Voso.vn, Tai said.
The province is doubling efforts to implement its digital transformation programme in agriculture for the 2021 – 2025 period, with a vision towards 2030. The programme aims to build a digital ecosystem for the transformation from an agricultural production to an agricultural economy and the development of hi-tech agriculture, smart agriculture and accurate agriculture, and to increase the share of smart agriculture in the economy./.
After the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays, trade union members and workers in Hoa Binh province returned to work with an excited spirit at the beginning of the new spring. Throughout the workshops, factories and enterprises, they were full of enthusiasm, immediately getting to work, striving to excellently complete tasks and production and business targets.
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