“Farmers Network” – A Journey to Technologicalize Agriculture, Enhancing the Value of Farmers

Launching the “Farmer’s Network” application is one of the important events of Vietnam’s agricultural industry in the fourth quarter of 2023. It can be said that this is a digital environment that integrates a perfect tool system to create Close connection between Cooperatives, Farmers, Farms and businesses in the agricultural sector to build an effective management system. Let’s consult Mega A Logistics now!

Introducing the platform “Farmers Network”

The event takes place in Can Tho city at the end of October 2023. Under the leadership of the Center for Digital Transformation and Agricultural Statistics (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) in coordination with Vietnam Agriculture Newspaper and Joint Stock Company The World software technology division (Worldsoft) successfully produced and deployed the application “Farmer’s Network” with the slogan “Digital Farmer’s Journey.”

“Farmer network” is simply defined as an environment that integrates modern management systems and tools to build close relationships between cooperatives, farmers, farms, and businesses in the agricultural sector. businesses to build strict and effective management guidelines, thereby facilitating access to reputable credit capital sources.

Most importantly, the platform will also provide maximum support to farmers in terms of production planning, proactive financial monitoring as well as buying and selling agricultural products.

According to the platform development unit, the Farmer Network is inherited and developed from the application “Digital Farmer” (referred to as Mr. Agri) of Worldsoft Company.

The highlight is improving the interface and expanding interactive functions between members, making it user-friendly. At the same time, it will continue to upgrade and enrich agricultural data and archives in the near future.

“Farmer’s Network” Maximizes Excellence

Currently, applications & technology platforms on the market mainly focus on solving one stage, one problem or one stage of farmers. That’s why we can’t create unity and connection.
Meanwhile, with “Farmers Network”, we intend to create a large sharing space and form a strong connection between farmers and experts. From there, strongly promote planning activities to forecast productivity, output, selling price, and profit; access capital effectively.

Moreover, “Farmer’s Network” has all the superior features of a “social network” as well as integrated planning tools such as: expected output, services, work diary jobs, connecting credit institutions, expected selling price/profit percentage, expected all input costs. At the same time, it is an agricultural product information channel in line with consumer trends, easily connected to IoT smart agricultural devices.

It is no exaggeration to say that we have been bringing to farmers “A TRUE WORLD OF TECHNOLOGY”

In addition, “Farm Network” is also pre-installed on Xelex “Made in Vietnam” tablet devices to create a more convenient “All – in – one” software and hardware integration solution for farmers.

“The goal of the Farmers’ Network is to build, improve and maintain knowledge autonomy through detailed answers to questions and concerns related to agricultural issues such as: seasons, regulations cultivation program, pest control, and close coordination with grassroots agricultural extension forces.

Moreover, the platform also helps farmers in output issues when connecting agricultural product transactions as well as building trading alliances with Cooperatives and Enterprises through smartphone and tablet devices. ” Director of the Center for Digital Transformation and Agricultural Statistics (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) – Mr. Nguyen Quoc Toan da said.

The above operations and processes of the “Farmer’s Network” application will significantly improve the ability to optimize input materials, reduce costs as well as give farmers a variety of choices.

In 2023, “Farmer Network” will be deployed in Tan Tien Cooperative area, Vinh Long province. In the period October – November 2023, production units and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will coordinate with Tien Giang Provincial Farmers’ Association to train 1,300 farming households in the province.

In the coming time, digital transformation is considered an important task of the Agriculture sector, that’s why the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has been having strategies to strongly promote this factor and “Farmer Network” is one of them. that number. The key digital transformation areas that the Ministry is targeting are:

• Digital awareness, digital institutions, digital data, digital platforms, digital human resources, network information security, digital government, digital agricultural economy, digital infrastructure.

That context requires the intellectualization of farmers, through improving production and business management skills, and the ability to access and apply technology and science and technology for farmers. Not only that, Mr. Thach, Editor-in-Chief of Vietnam Agriculture Newspaper also made important statements about the “Farmer’s Network” project:

“Resolution No. 26-NQ/TW of the 10th Party Central Committee on agriculture, farmers and rural areas has specifically identified the importance of Human Resource Development, Raising agricultural knowledge. people.”

That’s why “Intellectualization and Modernization” of farmers is a mandatory factor in the process of building ecological agriculture and modern and civilized rural areas. It can be said that “Farmer Network” is a simple approach but extremely effective and familiar to farmers.

We will continue to develop, upgrade and spread the system to many provinces and cities with the motto “Ask What You Answer” so that Farmer’s Network truly becomes the Largest Digital Platform for Agriculture and market-oriented. International.

Modern technologies in the world such as AI and Machine Learning are also expected to be integrated into the “Farmer’s Network” system to solve financial, crop, and supply issues and contribute to creating favorable conditions. benefits the globalization strategy of our country’s farmers.

Almost all market information will be updated with the latest and fastest with accurate data, able to answer any problems in the agricultural sector. This is something that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and production units have verified and verified accurately after many tests.

The farmer network will contribute to solving the problems of Vietnam’s agricultural sector through the opinions and needs of farmers. The Minister said that people should not be left alone in their “oasis”. Obviously between a person and a connection of a network, the value is different.

It is not an exaggeration to say that “Farmer’s Network” will contribute significantly to promoting the strong development of the Vietnam – China Cross Border Logistics system that Mega A has been undertaking. Please continue to accompany us!

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