What else can Internet Plus agriculture bring beyond e-commerce?
Baokang is the only entirely mountainous county in Xiangyang, and buying and selling difficulties are common in its rural areas. In recent years, to keep the economic artery between urban and rural areas flowing, the county has not only built a three-tier modern circulation network system at the county, township and village levels, but has also actively relied on "Internet Plus" to build a new system integrating agricultural products with e-commerce networks, focusing on implementing the "four major projects" so that agricultural products can ride the e-commerce express. (August 26, Xiangyang Daily)
Riding the e-commerce express, Baokang's agricultural products have successfully made their way out of the mountains. This is a valuable exploration of "Internet Plus agriculture" in Xiangyang. However, with the rapid development of network technology today, e-commerce is not the only thing the internet can bring to agriculture; there are more directions worth exploring on the "Internet Plus" road.
Internet marketing plus agriculture can not only open up sales channels for unsalable agricultural products, but can also work with real-time monitoring at production bases to make agricultural products fully transparent and traceable from farm to table. At present, many plots in the core area of Xiangyang's China Organic Valley have already achieved this kind of internet marketing with real-time monitoring, and online sales of organic products in the valley are very encouraging.
Internet data plus agriculture can promote the intelligentization of agricultural production. Science and technology are advancing rapidly, and agricultural production cannot remain stuck in the traditional way of depending on the weather. Making full use of new technologies such as big data and GPS can make agricultural production more precise and traceable, reduce manpower and lower costs, and thereby achieve standardization of agricultural production. Not long ago, 163 subsoiling machines in Xiangzhou District were equipped with "Beidou" satellite positioning terminal devices and went into the fields to work, ensuring farmers' increased output and income and improving the quality and efficiency of agriculture.
Internet agricultural inputs plus agriculture can improve the agricultural input supply chain. Agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, veterinary drugs, seeds... For a region, many agricultural inputs are undergoing standardized promotion. If relevant departments build a high-quality, authenticity-guaranteed internet sales platform, then today, when the grassroots internet penetration rate is already very high, the agricultural input market will also usher in a brand-new revolution. From production to circulation, from marketing to services, the entire agricultural input supply chain will be greatly improved.
Internet finance plus agriculture can improve rural financial services. In recent years, the coverage of financial services for "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" in Hubei Province has grown larger and larger, and the capacity of finance to benefit and strengthen agriculture has increased significantly. Guiding agricultural producers to use internet finance reasonably can not only make funds for agricultural production more ample, but also make agricultural insurance payouts more precise.
The internet is a bridge that passes through layer upon layer of data and connects agriculture with other industries. The "Internet Plus" road is very broad. I hope that the vast number of agricultural producers can do more exploration, so that the methods of "Internet Plus agriculture" become richer and the results more abundant.