Information technology and modern agriculture toward integration

Source：Economic Daily       Time:2014-11-21 11:28:26     Clicks:104

Big data, networking, cloud computing and other new generation of information technology to accelerate agricultural production, operation, management, field service applications, the Government to promote, market, agricultural information development mechanism involved in the initial formation of pluralistic. However, the lack of top-level construction of agricultural information design, there is no unified planning, unified action to promote the implementation of the pattern, the data information is difficult to play.

In the 2014 Agricultural Information Forum organized recently by the Ministry of Agriculture, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Chen Xiaohua said that our focus on agricultural information for an effective exploration of large data, networking, cloud computing and other new generation of information technology to accelerate to agriculture production, operation, management, services, government to promote, market, agricultural information development mechanism involved in the initial formation of pluralistic. He said that to increase the top-level design, get rid of the fragmented nature of the phenomenon, to solve the waste of resources, low-level redundant construction, information technology and modern agriculture to promote the depth of integration.

Inventory of current agricultural information technology development, a bundle of data is exciting: 3G network coverage to all the country's towns, villages broadband coverage to reach 91% of broadband access in rural areas more than 47 million users. National agricultural site has reached more than 40 000, 12 316 hotline has covered more than a third of households, information pilot villages and households are 10 provinces (municipalities) 22 counties powerful propulsion. Things agriculture and regional demonstration test project has achieved significant milestones in Beijing and other eight provinces, agricultural e-commerce has annual turnover of over 50 billion yuan.

Ministry of Agriculture Secretary Zhang synthesis market opinion, agricultural information has two main characteristics: First, the intelligent development of agricultural production. Things countries demonstration project and regional agricultural Things have started to implement pilot projects, important to achieve substantive results. A total of 310 selected national agricultural Things achievements involve crops "Four Love" monitoring, agriculture, aquaculture, livestock, agricultural job scheduling, quality and safety of agricultural products and other fields.

Second, agricultural operations to network transformation. In the past two years, and a number of suburbs of big cities such as Beijing Tootoo Socialist Workers, Shanghai cuisine housekeeper, Wuhan easy family to provide daily fresh produce electricity for public and commercial enterprises, and momentum. Current national agricultural business platform for more than 3000, the rapid growth of agricultural products online trading volume, and a number of "Taobao County" and "Taobao village."

However, China's agricultural information either with or compared to the developed countries of other industries, there is a big gap. Currently there are more than 50,000 rural villages do not have access to broadband, the proportion of households with a computer farmers less than 30%, and more than 70% of the farmers do not use the Internet. At present, the application of information technology in the field of agriculture remained mostly experimental demonstration phase, information technology into practical productive forces extremely arduous task.

Reporters learned that many places lack of creative talents of agricultural information, research and scattered strength, the dominant position of enterprise innovation has not been fully established, IT innovation is not strong willingness for agriculture, lack of investment, resulting in small agricultural information technology innovations scientific research and production of touch. Meanwhile, construction of agricultural information lacking top-level design, there is no unified plan to promote uniform implementation of the pattern, there is the phenomenon of fighting each other, resulting in a waste of resources, low-level redundant construction, information silos more common, the role of the data value of information is difficult to play.

Cloud computing, big data era has arrived, traditional agriculture to plug in information technology wings. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said Wang Wensheng, deputy director of information, integration and future mining applications cloud computing and big data agriculture for the development of modern agriculture plays an important role. Big Data is not only to facilitate the production and livelihood of farmers in rural areas, but also that the government decision to provide an accurate basis. Through this "big data-driven" agriculture, farmers will make more efficient production activities. Meanwhile, based on the analysis of large data can also help the government to effectively monitor the implementation of various agricultural policy, agricultural production and promptly correct deviations and errors.

"Things agriculture is a complex project, overall in the experimental stage, it is necessary to pay attention to it, but not blindly exaggerate its role, in conjunction with the existing information technology work." Director of the National Agricultural Information Engineering Technology Research Center, said Zhao Chunjiang, physical networking has ubiquitous, but limited resources and technology, the development of the application should be focused, to give priority to start with the basics, and high degree of the scale of the industry. In his view, should be in the soil and water resources development and utilization of the production process of fine management, agricultural areas and food safety monitoring system priority.

Chen Xiaohua told reporters that the next step, China will actively preparing for the launch of e-commerce demonstration projects to promote agricultural business information. Encourage the development of e-commerce include agricultural products, focusing on the advantages of agricultural products wholesale business model to explore the upgrading and supporting information technology, efficient docking farmer cooperatives and markets a variety of agricultural applications of e-commerce business model and technology, agricultural management of large data Construction of the center of the platform and other core projects.