Faced with the impacts of climate change, the transition to high-tech agricultural production and smart agriculture is considered an inevitable trend. Ms. Tran Thi Sen in Dong Yen commune (Thanh Hoa city) - who has many years of experience in producing tomatoes, flowers, Kim Hoang Hau melons... said that although investing in building greenhouses requires high capital investment, it is convenient for growers in caring for crops, minimizing the use of pesticides; flowers and fruits develop evenly, improving quality...
Big investment, high efficiency
With this model, it is also possible to proactively build a planting schedule with many different types of flowers and fruits, meeting market demand at each time to be able to sell at the highest price. In addition to investing in infrastructure, she also applies automatic drip irrigation technology; care processes are automatically set up, the ratio of fertilizers, nutrients, and techniques are carried out scientifically. From there, it is possible to save on labor costs, because only labor is needed to operate the system and perform supervision. Notably, due to the investment in a greenhouse system and modern care equipment, she can easily test planting some new crops.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hoang Van Tham, Director of Chuc Son Clean Vegetable and Fruit Cooperative, said that the cooperative is the first unit in Chuong My district (Hanoi) to coordinate with scientists to install the iMetos 3.3 AG smart weather monitoring station system. With a coverage radius of 15km, the monitoring station accurately forecasts temperature, wind speed, rainfall... as a basis for farmers to develop plans to care for and protect vegetables and fruits. In addition, the cooperative invested in installing 10 cameras in the fields, connected to computers and smartphones to help the board of directors easily manage the production area according to the process... Thanks to high-tech vegetable and fruit production, each day, the cooperative collects nearly 2 tons of clean vegetables and fruits without being affected by the weather. Currently, the cooperative's vegetable products are supplied to 4 hospitals, 2 supermarket systems, and 15 convenience stores under a joint contract with stable selling prices.
In order to have effective investment models for smart agriculture, banks have played a good role as a bridge to lead capital to support farmers, cooperatives and businesses. As the main source of capital and financial services for the agricultural and rural areas, Agribank has identified lending to this sector as a focus, in which high-tech agriculture and clean agriculture are always prioritized, offering many incentives to borrowers. The bank has allocated VND 50,000 billion to implement a loan program to encourage the development of high-tech agriculture and clean agriculture. To date, Agribank's loan turnover since the program was launched has reached over VND 25,000 billion with more than 40,000 borrowers (of which, more than 98% of customers are individuals, households, farm owners, etc.).
These results will be further expanded thanks to Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation and the Resolution of the National Assembly on piloting a number of special mechanisms and policies to remove obstacles in science and technology activities. These are policies and guidelines of great significance to the high-tech industry in general and have a strong impact on the development of high-tech agriculture and smart agriculture in particular. Thereby, creating favorable conditions for research and application of modern technology, attracting investment in smart agriculture, improving productivity and product quality, and helping Vietnamese agriculture meet international standards for sustainable development.
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Early clearing of legal corridor
However, most farmers and small businesses still face difficulties in accessing advanced technology due to limitations in capital, human resources and technical infrastructure. In many localities, limitations in technological infrastructure make it difficult to access and apply digital technology in agricultural production; human resources with expertise in information technology in the agricultural sector are lacking, especially in rural areas; agricultural data is still fragmented, not digitized and managed in a centralized and synchronous manner, making it difficult to deploy analysis, forecasting and decision-making systems. The Government has many major policies, but detailed implementation has not yet met practical needs, causing difficulties for localities in the implementation process.
Despite many challenges, developing smart agriculture is always an important foundation for building a green agricultural system that meets international standards on environmental protection and climate change response. Therefore, experts say that it is necessary to have a policy mechanism to support enterprises investing in high-tech agriculture, such as quickly issuing legal frameworks, regulations and guidelines related to the high-tech agricultural sector, opening up legal corridors for enterprises as well as financial institutions to participate in the high-tech agricultural and green finance markets. In addition, the Government needs to have policies to support costs for designing fields, infrastructure, creating concentrated production areas specializing in commodity production, facilitating the application of mechanization for high-tech agricultural production; developing markets and services to support high-tech application activities in the consumption of agricultural products.
Along with that, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Tho and the research team of the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Agriculture and Environment proposed that there should be in-depth training programs on agricultural technology, from data management, automatic machine operation to the use of artificial intelligence, helping workers improve their qualifications and easily adapt to modern production trends. The development of sustainable smart agriculture in Vietnam requires a comprehensive strategy with coordination between the Government, businesses, research institutes and farmers. Only by maximizing the potential of technology and innovation can Vietnamese agriculture compete in the international market, meet increasingly stringent standards and move towards a green, efficient and sustainable production.
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