The Ministry of Agriculture studies and deploys poverty alleviation and big data work in agricultural and rural areas.

On December 8th, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu presided over the standing meeting of the Ministry, which conveyed and studied the spirit of the Central work Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Development, studied the opinions on the implementation of the Ministry of Agriculture, and adopted in principle the implementation opinions of the Ministry of Agriculture on promoting the Development of big data in Agriculture and Rural areas. Han Changfu pointed out: agricultural departments at all levels should conscientiously study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang's important speech and the "decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on winning the War of getting rid of Poverty." fully understand the great significance of tackling poverty alleviation to building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and consolidating the party's ruling foundation, and further enhance the sense of responsibility, mission, and urgency in poverty alleviation and development work.

The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to attach great importance to the work of getting rid of poverty, make arrangements in accordance with the spirit and requirements of the central authorities, mobilize the forces of the entire agricultural industry and the whole system, and earnestly increase preferential support in terms of financial support, personnel training, market development, and so on. It is necessary to strengthen poverty alleviation by characteristic industries and guide and help poor areas to develop characteristic industries based on resource endowments, eco-environmental carrying capacity, and market demand. Agricultural and animal husbandry departments in poor areas should seize the opportunity, integrate resources and forces, and strive to further improve the development level of agriculture and animal husbandry in poor areas through poverty alleviation work. It is necessary to earnestly enhance the awareness of the overall situation, put agricultural poverty alleviation work on the important agenda, and leaders of ministries and departments and responsible comrades of various departments and bureaus should go more into poverty-stricken areas to do a good job in research, visit the poor and ask about hardship, and put the focus of poverty alleviation work on villages and households. It is necessary to formulate as soon as possible the opinions of the Ministry of Agriculture on strengthening poverty alleviation in characteristic industries, establish rules and regulations, develop rural tourism, and organize symposiums on poverty alleviation work in characteristic industries.

The meeting pointed out that the development of big data in agricultural and rural areas plays an important role in promoting the precision and intelligence of agricultural production, improving the timeliness and accuracy of agricultural and rural economic information, and improving the level of equalization of information services in urban and rural areas. it is an important content of promoting modern agricultural construction and an important basis for the government's scientific management. Agricultural departments at all levels should earnestly enhance their understanding, give priority to promoting the construction of a global agricultural data investigation and analysis system, and take this as a starting point to promote the development and application of big data in agriculture and rural areas. It is necessary to have a clear guiding ideology, adhere to the problem orientation, not stay in concepts and ideas, and provide services for agricultural scientific management, market guidance, agricultural macro decision-making, production and management subjects, and so on. It is necessary to strengthen institutional and mechanism innovation, strengthen top-level design, unify integration standards, determine integration levels and platforms, ensure data interconnection, and prevent internal fragmentation. At the same time, we should actively integrate and optimize the stock of funds, avoid repeated construction and waste of resources, effectively promote data sharing, and ensure information security.

Other issues were also studied at the meeting.