The Provincial Farmers' Association has coordinated with Viettel Lao Cai to promote and mobilize members and farmers to use telecommunications and information technology services provided by Viettel; support the application of digital technology in the management of production and trading of agricultural products; organize 2 training conferences to improve the management and operation capacity of cooperatives, cooperative groups, and professional associations for 130 participants. Coordinate with the Post Office to support and guide members and farmers to access e-commerce methods; create accounts to introduce, promote, and consume products on the e-commerce trading floor Postmart.vn/Agri-postmart.vn.

Coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to promote the dissemination of specialized software and information systems serving the development of digital society in agriculture; exploit information, apply agricultural science and technology services, smart agricultural models in the digital environment to serve production development and social life on platforms such as Youtube, Facebook, TikTok...

The Provincial Farmers' Association trains business skills on digital platforms for Cooperatives, Cooperative Groups, Branches, professional farmer associations, and good farmer households.

The agricultural sector has maintained software for granting and managing codes for growing areas and agricultural product packaging facilities for export, updating 14 banana growing area codes and 1 tea growing area code that meet export standards; granting codes to 9 packaging facilities in the province. Along with that, it has guided and supported enterprises and cooperatives to update information about enterprises and their products, strengthen trade promotion, expand markets; connect and bring agricultural products of Lao Cai province to e-commerce trading floors... Currently, 100% of OCOP products have been listed on e-commerce floors and trade promotion information pages; Agricultural Promotion Market pages...

There are 868 digital booth accounts of members, farmers, cooperatives, and businesses established on social networking platforms. Updated information of 130 agricultural production households in Lao Cai province. Surveyed locations for introducing and selling agricultural and forestry products in Sa Pa town and Bao Thang district; opened a booth "Displaying, introducing, connecting and selling local OCOP products" in Lao Cai ward, Lao Cai city.

Update information of 146 product chains on the Safe Agricultural Product Chain Management Information System. Support organizations and individuals to put products on e-commerce platforms: 100% of OCOP products are put on e-commerce platforms (laocaitrade.vn) and trade promotion information pages (xttmnongnghiep.laocai.gov.vn); put 17 products on the website: http://phiencho.khuyennongvn.gov.vn to introduce and promote products.

To date, Lao Cai has had 104 enterprises and cooperatives participating with 328 safe agricultural product lines granted QR Codes; 201 enterprises and cooperatives participating in interaction, introducing and promoting products with 350 participating product lines.

Propaganda and raising awareness among people and businesses about the importance of digital transformation in agriculture.

However, digital transformation in agriculture in localities still faces many difficulties, in which the application of digital transformation in production and business is still new, so the awareness of most businesses, establishments and especially farmers is still limited. In addition, the infrastructure for the development and application of new technologies is not synchronous, the infrastructure of agriculture and rural areas does not meet the requirements of agricultural modernization; the quality of human resources with high expertise in agricultural production and processing, and knowledge of how to use and operate equipment (automatic, digital, analytical equipment, etc.) is limited; the application of information technology by businesses and production establishments largely does not meet the needs of digital transformation.

To make digital transformation in agriculture more effective, Mr. Bui Quang Hung - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Lao Cai province said: In the coming time, the Farmers' Association will coordinate with sectors and localities to strengthen propaganda work, raise awareness of people and businesses about the role and importance of digital transformation in production and business in the agricultural sector; upgrade and move towards building modern and synchronous digital technology infrastructure; improve access to telecommunications services, support farmers in using information technology equipment; train, improve qualifications, capacity to access and apply digital technology in agricultural production for farmers; upgrade infrastructure to facilitate access and application of digital technology in the agricultural sector./.