Hai Phong develops agricultural digital economy, promotes export of agricultural products

The impact of the recent Covid-19 pandemic has been influencing the buying, selling, trading, distributing and exporting of different agricultural products.

Although transactions on the e-commerce platform has become increasingly familiar and popular in face of the pandemic; for agricultural products, this is a relatively new area.

Therefore, the promotion of electronic agricultural product trading platforms has been encouraged by the government in order to unlock the potentials of this effective distribution channel.

According to Hai Phong Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, after a period of actively implementing solutions, several businesses, cooperatives, and production households in the field of crop production have applied automatic irrigation systems, drip irrigation systems, automatic temperature control in greenhouses and nethouses.

In addition, the application of LED lighting technology in crop production has contributed to saving labor costs, water resources, and increasing crop productivity.

In animal husbandry and animal production, a number of livestock establishments and livestock farms have equipped sensor systems to regulate the microclimate in livestock cages, automatic feeders, and automatic drinking water systems; manage and track the raising, sales and origin of livestock on computer.

On the other hand, concentrated livestock and poultry slaughtering establishments have applied modern and industrial slaughter line technology; manage and monitor slaughter, sales on computer.

In the fisheries sector, the cruise monitoring system and Vnfishbase software have been applied to manage fishing vessels and support fishermen in the process of fishing at sea; Some vessel owners have applied fishing channel detectors.

As for aquaculture, production facilities and businesses have applied aquaculture in tarpaulin houses, automatic aeration fan systems, and pond environmental management technology.

In addition, agricultural product processing and trading establishments have implemented traceability of agricultural products with QR codes as well as joined e-commerce platforms.

In order to support the favorable consumption of agricultural products, many agencies and businesses have actively developed plans to support the listing of production households on the e-commerce platform, promoting the development of the agricultural and rural digital economy.

As a result, these plans will connect, introduce and put at least 220 agricultural product codes on the e-commerce platforms including: Vo So, Postmart, Shopee, Ladaza among many others.

Hai Phong also has over 100 products with QR code traceability through various systems such as traceVerified.com, agricheck.net, icheck.com.vn, trace.icheck.vn, smartcheck.vn. The main participants of which are businesses and cooperatives wishing to bring their goods to supermarkets or export.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Tuat - Deputy Director of Hai Phong Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said that the application of digital technology to the production and distribution of agricultural products is becoming an inevitable trend within the agricultural sector. In order to successfully carry out the digital transformation of agriculture, it is necessary to accompany and support farmers in applying digital technology to production.

Farmers in the digital transformation of agriculture not only play a key role but also require the most attention. Moreover, Vietnamese agricultural products and Hai Phong's products in particular are mainly produced by farmers.

Meanwhile, the majority of farmers are now regularly using mobile phones. Therefore, by applying digital transformation in agriculture, farmers can easily and directly access new technologies in the field of science and technology as well as promote the connection channel to consume output products in the production process of agricultural products not only domestically but also internationally.

Hai Phong's agriculture sector will continue to build models of high technology application, information technology, and smart agriculture connection in the immediate future.

Furthermore, it will create favorable conditions to promote organizations, businesses and individuals to invest, support and strengthen research into digital technologies, development of digital platforms, digital data activities, create digital content services on agriculture and rural development to serve society and develop the digital economy.

Additionally, promote activities to connect production and consumption of agricultural products on online platforms and based on the data regarding supply and demand of agencies, units, associations, industries and businesses inside and outside Hai Phong city.