The Ministry of Agriculture encourages social forces to participate in agricultural informatization

A few days ago, the Ministry of Agriculture responded to the recommendations of the third session of the 12th National people's Congress on several issues of agricultural informatization, and launched the initiative of the National Agricultural Informatization Alliance to speed up the in-depth implementation of the "Internet +" modern agricultural action.

The responsible person of the Market and Economic Information Department of the Ministry of Agriculture said that in the process of promoting agricultural informatization, the Ministry of Agriculture has always paid attention to the guidance of the government, the main body of enterprises, and encouraged the active and extensive participation of all sectors of society, thus forming a pattern of joint promotion by the government, operators and service providers. Encourage and support farmers' cooperatives, family farms, industrialization leading enterprises and other new agricultural operators to carry out agricultural e-commerce, and encourage third-party platforms to develop agriculture-related e-commerce; a number of agricultural information enterprises with good basic conditions, high level of application, mature and reliable models, and practical innovative measures have been identified as national demonstration bases.

In the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture will continue to encourage enterprises to participate, gather more resources, and improve the market-oriented operation mechanism. will actively coordinate the relevant departments to study the feasibility of subsidizing the construction of village-level information service stations and village-level information staff public welfare services, guide the main producing areas of the market to apply e-commerce technology, and explore and develop a real-time transaction data collection information system. Continuously improve the collection capacity, circulation efficiency and information disclosure of agricultural products (000061, stock bar) in the main producing areas, and actively plan major information construction projects such as the second phase of the "Jinnong Project" and the "e-Farmer" Project. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance will also speed up the improvement of the telecommunications universal service compensation mechanism with broadband as an important content, and speed up the construction of broadband infrastructure in rural areas.