Leveraging digital technology in agricultural production

Updated date: 04/10/2025 11:04:25

DTO - In recent times, the implementation of digital transformation in agriculture in the province has been carried out extensively. People are increasingly applying digital technology to production activities, contributing to improving productivity and product quality, gradually transforming the province's agriculture from traditional to modern agriculture.

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Many outstanding results

In the spirit of the Plan to implement the Project on Digital Transformation of the Provincial Agricultural Sector by 2025, the Provincial People's Committee assigned specific tasks to provincial departments, branches and district and city People's Committees. Accordingly, the implementation results by 2024 achieved 12/12 targets. Of which, 6 targets exceeded the plan. Specifically, for digital government, 100% of administrative procedures under the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (now the Department of Agriculture and Environment) met the conditions to be provided as fully online public services, partly exceeding 3% of the 2024 plan, reaching 100% of the plan by 2025. At the same time, 100% of databases under the management of the agricultural sector (from provincial, district and commune levels) were digitized and provided open data to serve the people and socio-economic development; Exceeding 10% of the 2024 plan and reaching 100% of the plan by 2025.

For the digital economy, the targets exceeded are a total of 20 guilds applying IoT to production; an increase of 16 guilds compared to 2023, 11 guilds exceeding the plan for 2024 and 13 guilds exceeding the plan by 2025; a total of 25% of guilds and cooperatives applying the Internet of Things (IoT) to production; 22.5% of guilds and cooperatives applying technology to trace origins, with e-commerce activities through the Community Digital Technology Group achieving and exceeding the plan for 2024 and by 2025. Consulting and supporting over 58% of small and medium enterprises operating in the field of agriculture and rural development to do business on e-commerce trading floors, achieving and exceeding 8% compared to the plan for 2024 and 3% by 2025.

For the digital society group, through the Community Digital Technology Team, support and advice were provided to 162,283/259,396 farmers (accounting for 62.56%) on how to apply IoT to the production process, exploit supply-demand information via the Internet, how to promote online, and trade online, reaching and exceeding 12.56% of the 2024 plan, and 2.56% of the plan by 2025.

Implementing the project's solutions on developing technical infrastructure, the province initially installed and operated 17 smart insect monitoring systems in rice and fruit growing ecological areas. At the same time, the Provincial People's Committee approved the digital agriculture platform system project in Decision No. 160/QD-UBND.HC dated February 28, 2024, allocating funding for infrastructure investment in the digital transformation of the agricultural sector to build an automatic, fast, and highly accurate monitoring network. These are considered the factors leading the province's technology in the digital transformation process.

In the development of digital platforms and digital data, the province has carried out the task assigned by the National Committee on Digital Transformation to research and develop the Digital Data Platform on Agriculture in Dong Thap province at https://vdapes.com with 6 main subsystems, including: Cultivation and Plant Protection; Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Medicine; Aquaculture; Rural Development; Irrigation; Forestry. At the same time, sharing and integrating data of the natural resources and environment sector is carried out to share management data to serve the warning and forecasting work for environmental impacts (land, water, air) and serve agricultural production. Up to now, the pilot task of implementing the Digital Data Platform on Agriculture has been basically completed, meeting the needs of local use and has the ability to be replicated in the region and nationwide.

Applying digital technology to production

The deployment of ground monitoring equipment helps to automatically collect data and digitize the cultivation process in some models for key products that the province focuses on. Accordingly, 6 smart water monitoring stations; 17 smart insect monitoring stations are installed to serve the implementation of models applying IOT technology, artificial intelligence AI to automatically collect cultivation data to serve warnings, forecasts, traceability for key agricultural products, synchronize data to the established traceability platform.

Based on practical needs, in recent times, a number of models of agricultural digital transformation have been established in the province. For example, the pilot model of "My Xuong e-commerce commune, Cao Lanh district, Dong Thap province", in which farmers in cooperatives, cooperative groups, and guilds know and exploit the application of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the production process, exploit supply and demand information via the Internet, buy and sell online...

Cao Lanh district builds a QR Stamp system to scan barcodes to provide cooperatives with QR code activation to trace the origin of mangoes; builds a mobile application "Cao Lanh Companion" integrating subsystems. For Tam Nong district, in coordination with the Institute of Climate Change - An Giang University, Ho Chi Minh City National University and experts from Mekong Organics, Wildbird Company Limited organizes ecological, regenerative and commercial organic rice cultivation for farmers in the district.

Notably, most districts and cities have applied smart agriculture models with automatic irrigation systems, using drones to spray pesticides and fertilize, helping to save costs and improve production efficiency. Remote monitoring and automated control systems reduce labor, increase productivity and create high-quality products, meeting the requirements of domestic and foreign markets. Regarding the implementation of the Smart Village model applied in Dong Thap province, in 2024, 6 Smart Village models will be recognized.

With the achieved results, in 2025, the province set a number of targets for implementing the Digital Transformation Project in the agricultural sector. For the Digital Government group, maintain 100% of administrative procedures in the agricultural sector (implemented by the Department of Agriculture and Environment) that are eligible to be provided as full and partial online public services, maintain 100% of documents exchanged via the network environment in the form of electronic documents, digitally signed by specialized digital signatures, except for confidential documents as prescribed by law. Maintain 100% of databases in the agricultural sector (from provincial, district, and commune levels) that are digitized and provide open data to serve the people and socio-economic development; maintain 100% of leaders, cadres, civil servants, and public employees trained in digital skills to proficiently use basic information technology applications for work requirements.

Digital economic group, complete the database on agricultural production and rural development at all management levels (province, district, commune); build a digital transformation platform for agriculture to help manage digital agriculture and develop the agricultural economy, ready to integrate into the province's data system. Cumulatively build 7 Smart Villages; build at least 7 more guilds applying IoT to production; 20% of guilds and cooperatives apply technology to trace origin, have e-commerce activities through the Community Digital Technology Group. Complete the model of synchronous application of digital technology and IoT monitoring equipment, remote sensing to help collect and build a large database of the industry through the digital agricultural ecosystem platform. Maintain 100% of products under the OCOP Program available on e-commerce platforms; consult and support over 60% of small and medium enterprises operating in the field of agriculture and rural development to do business on e-commerce trading platforms.

The digital society group, through the Community Digital Technology Team and the Community Agricultural Extension Team, supports and advises over 60% of farmers on how to apply information technology to the production process, exploit supply and demand information via the Internet, and how to promote online and trade online.

Y DU

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