Ningxia: Empowering Agricultural Modernization with Digitalization to Create Infinite Possibilities

“In the past, I bought grass and sold cattle to run the market by myself; now I can do business by sitting at home with my hands, which is convenient and worry free.” Recently, in Chuanhe Village, Yanghe Township, Longde County, Guyuan, Ningxia, breeder Ma Fucai spoke highly of the benefits of Longde County beef cattle industry Big data management platform.

At the moment when information technology is accelerating change, new technologies, new formats and new platforms such as Big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence are booming, opening new space and creating new possibilities for agricultural development. In recent years, Ningxia has empowered the development of rural industries with digitization, and the promotion of digital technologies such as 24-hour monitoring and remote control has brought unprecedented opportunities for the transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture. Longde County took the lead in building a beef cattle industry Big data management platform in the region, connecting the feeding end and the supply end. The beef cattle went out of the pen and directly entered the sales channels or slaughter processing links, reducing the intermediate links, saving costs and increasing benefits. Such a digital “cow’s net” is impressive for the power of technology, and it also strengthens the confidence and determination to empower agricultural modernization with digitization.

The 14th Five Year Plan period is a critical period for China’s agricultural Digital transformation, which contains huge market space and development potential. But digital agriculture is a complex and systematic project, and there are still many areas that need to be explored, as well as many challenges that need to be solved. For example, advanced planning and technological innovation are necessary, the shortage of professional talents needs to be filled, and the level of digital integration and sharing needs to be improved… To open up new fields and tracks, we need to seize opportunities, based on advantageous and characteristic industries, continue to work hard to overcome difficulties, and let digital technology play a greater role in the vast countryside, striving to create a new situation of agricultural and rural modernization.