Developing digital economy and digital society promotes rural agriculture associated with cultural tourism

International research shows that digital transformation of the agricultural sector will allow agricultural workers to reduce costs by up to 23%. Managing agricultural land with digital technology, especially GPS, reduces costs by up to 14%. Using digital technology to apply fertilizers according to each type of crop can save up to 12%. Autonomous driving in agriculture also helps reduce costs by up to 13%. Thus, digital technology, digital transformation, and automation will help the agricultural sector reduce a lot of costs. The cost of digital technology and digital transformation will be much smaller than the cost savings."

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Developing digital economy and digital society towards digital agriculture associated with ecological agriculture, circular agriculture, modern countryside, professional and civilized farmers. Key tasks include building and organizing the implementation of the Action Plan for developing digital economy and digital society in the field of agriculture and rural areas, shifting from agricultural production to digital agricultural economy; launching and attracting a wave of technology enterprises to invest in serving agriculture and rural development; developing digital platforms to serve the needs of farmers; developing crop insurance services, risk prevention for farmers. Building and organizing the implementation of an agricultural digital data platform in which state agencies play a leading role, cooperatives and agricultural enterprises play a core role and farmers actively participate in collecting, standardizing, opening data and providing open data to serve agricultural production and consumption of agricultural products; promptly providing information, consulting, and forecasting the situation for farmers. Build and deploy a digital platform connecting farmers with agricultural experts to collect and label data in the form of community contributions, apply artificial intelligence to support analysis, early detection of diseases for crops and livestock to have timely treatment plans. Build and deploy a platform to trace the origin of agricultural products to allow checking the origin, source, production process, and quality standards of agricultural products.

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Develop and update the national criteria for new rural areas, national criteria for hunger eradication and poverty reduction, especially for ethnic minority and mountainous areas with criteria for developing digital government, digital economy and digital society. Organize and implement the model of digital transformation villages and digital transformation communes, in which the key task is to link e-commerce development with the national program of one product per commune. Organize and implement the dissemination of digital skills for farmers through propaganda and dissemination through grassroots media; through the system of farmers' associations at all levels; propagate, mobilize, guide and support farmers to transform digitally in the process of organizing agricultural production and participating in the development of the digital economy and digital society; Organize training courses and digital skills training for farmers through digital platforms, online training, continuously develop digital skills and knowledge for farmers, prioritize skill groups on using and exploiting e-commerce platforms, electronic payments, identifying and preventing online fraud, and organize specialized training on digital agriculture at universities and postgraduate training institutions in the agriculture and rural development sector. Along with the development and implementation of the Action Plan for the development of the digital economy and digital society in the field of natural resources and environment, the development of a green economy, a circular economy, the use of renewable energy and low-carbon, environmentally friendly energy and the implementation of digital infrastructure, digital data platforms for the natural resources and environment sector, priority is given to the development of a national land data platform, an open national digital map to ensure the provision and sharing of data and information, the formation of new services and business models, the effective exploitation of the digital ecosystem on natural resources and environment, and the contribution of digital platforms to the development of the digital economy and digital society. Develop the digital economy and digital society in the direction of providing full information and online experiences to tourists before and during their trips in real time. Key tasks include developing and implementing the Action Plan for the development of the digital economy and digital society in the tourism sector, with each tourism enterprise being a digital technology application enterprise; launching and attracting a wave of technology enterprises to invest in tourism services; developing digital platforms connecting supply and demand for tourism. Developing and implementing a digital tourism data platform in which state agencies play a leading role, tourism enterprises play a core role and tourists actively participate in collecting, standardizing, opening data and providing open data to serve policy making, business planning, optimizing, improving service quality and offering incentive packages for tourists. Investigating, evaluating, classifying and digitizing tourism resources, regularly updating information and digital data on tourist areas, tourist attractions, tourism service establishments, and Vietnam's tourism market. Building and implementing a tourism management and business platform, serving digital transformation for tourism businesses, connecting domestic tourism product and service providers with distributors, online travel agents and large online travel trading platforms, supporting tourism businesses to connect, innovate in tourism business activities, creating attractive tourism packages for each tourist segment. Developing a smart tourism ecosystem; applying digital technology to connect to support and enhance the experience for tourists; expanding the capacity to provide services combining real and digital channels; maximizing the use of electronic transactions in tourism activities; applying modern technology to develop software and smart utilities to support the management and service of tourists. Building and implementing a multi-dimensional modeling platform to serve the development of digital museums and digital tourism. Building a digital museum system network, connecting and sharing knowledge resources from document systems at museums across the country.

Kim Oanh