(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./.
Anyone found to be encroaching upon the forest, even if it is just one bamboo shoot, will face penalties. This commitment has been unanimously added into the covenant of Bua Cau hamlet, Hung Son commune in Kim Boi district, to protect the forest.
The Hoa Binh Power Corporation (PC Hoa Binh) has applied synchronous measures to gear up for the coming summer season when power consumption demand surge may cause a risk of power supply disruption.
Appreciating the abundant potential and strengths of his hometown for tourism development, Ha Cong Hung, Deputy Secretary of the youth union of Mai Chau district’s Mai Hich commune, embarked on producing smoked meat with a desire to introduce his homeland's specialty to domestic and international tourists.
Hoa Binh farmers are investing big in their chilli pepper cultivation areas after the first batch of 7.5 tonnes of pickled chilli peppers was shipped to the Republic of Korea (RoK) by Tien Ngan Trade and Investment Co., Ltd last month.
Recognising the role and importance of developing the collective economy, the northern province of Hoa Binh has promptly issued support policies to propel the development of the economy, making important contributions to local socio-economic development.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a groundbreaking ceremony for an electronic printed circuit board (PCB) factory at Da River Left Bank Industrial Park in Hoa Binh province on April 13. The electronic PCB factory is invested by Japan's Meiko Group at a total cost of 200 million USD.
