Agricultural informatization: The Ministry of Agriculture encourages participation from social forces
The Ministry of Agriculture recently replied to the recommendations made at the Third Session of the Twelfth National People's Congress on several issues concerning agricultural informatization, and launched an initiative for a national agricultural informatization alliance to accelerate the in-depth implementation of the Internet Plus modern agriculture action. Market and Economic Information Department of the Ministry of Agriculture
The Ministry of Agriculture recently replied to the recommendations made at the Third Session of the Twelfth National People's Congress on several issues concerning agricultural informatization, and launched an initiative for a national agricultural informatization alliance to accelerate the in-depth implementation of the “Internet Plus” modern agriculture action.
A relevant official from the Market and Economic Information Department of the Ministry of Agriculture said that in the process of advancing agricultural informatization work, the Ministry of Agriculture has always emphasized government guidance and enterprise as the main body, encouraged all social forces to participate actively and extensively, and formed a pattern jointly advanced by government + operators + service providers; encouraged and supported farmers' cooperatives, family farms, industrialized leading enterprises and other new types of agricultural business entities to carry out agricultural e-commerce, and encouraged third-party platforms to develop agriculture-related e-commerce; and designated a group of agricultural informatization enterprises with good basic conditions, a high level of application, mature and reliable models, and practical innovative measures as national demonstration bases, among other things.
Next, the Ministry of Agriculture will continue to encourage enterprise participation, gather more resources, improve the market-oriented operation mechanism, and will actively coordinate with relevant departments to study the feasibility of subsidizing the construction of village-level information service stations and the public welfare services of village-level information officers under the information into villages and households initiative, guide origin markets in main production areas to apply e-commerce technology, explore and develop a real-time data collection information system for transactions at field-side markets in production areas, continuously improve the collection capacity, circulation efficiency and information disclosure level of agricultural products (000061, stock forum) in main production areas, and actively plan major informatization construction projects such as the second phase of the “Golden Agriculture Project” and the “e-Agriculture” project; the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance will also accelerate the improvement of the telecommunications universal service compensation mechanism with broadband as an important component and accelerate the construction of rural broadband infrastructure.
A relevant official from the Market and Economic Information Department of the Ministry of Agriculture said that in the process of advancing agricultural informatization work, the Ministry of Agriculture has always emphasized government guidance and enterprise as the main body, encouraged all social forces to participate actively and extensively, and formed a pattern jointly advanced by government + operators + service providers; encouraged and supported farmers' cooperatives, family farms, industrialized leading enterprises and other new types of agricultural business entities to carry out agricultural e-commerce, and encouraged third-party platforms to develop agriculture-related e-commerce; and designated a group of agricultural informatization enterprises with good basic conditions, a high level of application, mature and reliable models, and practical innovative measures as national demonstration bases, among other things.
Next, the Ministry of Agriculture will continue to encourage enterprise participation, gather more resources, improve the market-oriented operation mechanism, and will actively coordinate with relevant departments to study the feasibility of subsidizing the construction of village-level information service stations and the public welfare services of village-level information officers under the information into villages and households initiative, guide origin markets in main production areas to apply e-commerce technology, explore and develop a real-time data collection information system for transactions at field-side markets in production areas, continuously improve the collection capacity, circulation efficiency and information disclosure level of agricultural products (000061, stock forum) in main production areas, and actively plan major informatization construction projects such as the second phase of the “Golden Agriculture Project” and the “e-Agriculture” project; the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance will also accelerate the improvement of the telecommunications universal service compensation mechanism with broadband as an important component and accelerate the construction of rural broadband infrastructure.