Dak Nong farmers catch up with digital transformation

In the context of climate change and rapidly changing market demands, applying digital technology to agricultural production is the optimal solution for farmers.

Many farmers in Dak Nong are gradually shifting from traditional farming methods to modern technology applications to improve production efficiency.

Applying technology and techniques helps Mr. Nguyen Khoa Lan, residential group 5, Nghia Tan ward, Gia Nghia city save a lot of costs.

Specifically, in the case of Mr. Nguyen Khoa Lan's family, residential group 5, Nghia Tan ward, Gia Nghia city. Currently, his family has applied many techniques and technologies to improve production efficiency on 5 sao of land rotating vegetables and fruits.

Some steps have been semi-automatically performed such as watering and fertilizing through a smart irrigation system. He integrated some software via mobile phones to manage production inputs and outputs, easily calculating economic efficiency.

Technology helps you achieve high efficiency in terms of tracing the origin of input materials and capturing market information in a timely manner. Technology helps you and your affiliates easily exchange work, cooperate, and negotiate annual contract contents.

Thanks to technology, the contracting enterprise can easily control and trace the origin of how farmers like you implement the criteria and farming processes, and achieve the quality.

The application of technology in all production stages of Mr. Nguyen Khoa Lan, residential group 5, Nghia Tan ward, Gia Nghia city can be easily monitored and traced when necessary.

Demonstrating the quality of agricultural products will not need to be lengthy and difficult to convince the contracting party, but will have the support of machinery and technology.

With 5 sao of land, just counting the cultivation of Japanese eggplant, after 9 months his family harvested about 70 tons of fruit. The family's eggplant selling price is stable with purchasing enterprises at 6 - 10 million VND/ton. He earned from 360 million VND, minus the cost of seeds, materials, labor, irrigation water, the profit is about 260 million VND.

Mr. Nguyen Khoa Lan, residential group 5, Nghia Tan ward, Gia Nghia city earns about 260 million VND/year from 5 sao of eggplant.

According to Mr. Ho Gam, Chairman of Dak Nong Farmers' Association, many farmers have applied technology and techniques to production and business effectively. Digital transformation is becoming a positive trend that has spread in agriculture and farmers.

Some aspects of digital transformation have helped farmers change their thinking about large-scale production, linkages, traceability of goods, digital commerce, techniques, and farming technologies such as advanced irrigation...

Digital transformation is opening a new chapter for Dak Nong agriculture, not only helping to improve productivity and save costs but also creating new opportunities for farmers to access global markets.

Dak Nong has over 111,000 agricultural production households that have been digitized, reaching over 92.8%. The number of production and business households trained in digital skills is over 135,700 households, reaching over 80.5% of the total number of farming households in the province. This facilitates the agricultural sector in implementing digital transformation.

According to Mr. Gam, although digital transformation brings many benefits, the application process is not easy. Many Dak Nong farmers are facing many difficulties and challenges in digital transformation.

Specifically, regarding the issue of meeting EU standards on agricultural products that do not deforest, do not cause deforestation or forest degradation.

The province’s key agricultural products such as coffee, rubber, and wood products are affected. Tens of thousands of coffee-growing households in the province need more specific and effective support to meet these standards when the plan is implemented at the end of 2024.

In particular, tracing products to the garden via GPS is not easy in conditions where digital infrastructure in rural areas is still limited.

Farmers also have many limitations in updating their data. They need to be equipped and supported more in terms of equipment and technology to access more easily and conveniently...

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