Enhancing Information Technology Innovation, Promoting Agricultural Transformation and Upgrading

At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Office of the Central Cyber ​​Security and Informatization Committee jointly issued the “Digital Agriculture and Rural Development Plan (2019-2025)” to further strengthen the construction of agricultural and rural informatization and help the “village revitalization strategy” to realize and accelerate “Synchronization of the four modernizations, integrated development” provides important support.

The rural revitalization strategy’s demand for agricultural and rural informatization is reflected in the aspects of information services, information management, information perception and control, and information analysis. The innovation of agricultural information technology is the core driving force of the process of agricultural and rural informatization in our country. Building a national agricultural information technology innovation system is the key support and sustainable development guarantee for implementing the innovation-driven development strategy in the process of agricultural modernization. Accelerating the process of my country’s agricultural and rural informatization must rely on technological innovation, model innovation, mechanism innovation and policy creation.

One is to strengthen the construction of a collaborative innovation system and break through the key bottlenecks of the overall situation. With the application of emerging technologies such as biotechnology and information communication technology in the agricultural field, the paradigm and industrial form of agricultural scientific research have undergone tremendous changes. At the same time, many global key bottlenecks, such as large-region agricultural ecology and environmental governance, biosafety, and complex industrial issues, require collaborative innovation in multiple disciplines. It is necessary to focus on major global or regional key bottlenecks in the process of agricultural modernization, plan agricultural science plans at the national level, give full attention to and play the role of information technology and data science, and strengthen agricultural collaboration around information technology and big data technology Innovation system construction.

The second is to strengthen the infrastructure construction of agricultural information technology innovation and application. Including “air, space, earth and sea” integrated real-time information perception and data collection infrastructure, such as agricultural remote sensing satellites, agricultural environment and biosensor systems, agricultural drone monitoring systems, etc.; national farmland water conservancy and other agricultural infrastructure informatization and dataization And intelligent transformation to support the application and development of agricultural technology innovation and smart agricultural industry; national agricultural big data storage and governance infrastructure, responsible for collecting, storing and managing multi-source heterogeneous agricultural big data; national agricultural high-performance computing environment and cloud The service platform supports the computing mining and application services of agricultural big data.

The third is to strengthen institutional innovation and promote innovation-driven development. On a global scale, it is difficult to attract corporate and social capital to invest in agricultural information technology innovation. my country should give full play to its unique system advantages, and on the basis of the policy of actively promoting the industrialization of scientific research results, further strengthen mechanism innovation, create a new model that encourages scientific research personnel to participate more actively in market-oriented and enterprise-oriented technological innovation, and create cutting-edge basic research and industrial technology innovation The two teams build two platforms for scientific research and product development, break through the barriers between national scientific research institutions and corporate innovation systems, and form a benign interaction pattern and collaborative innovation model featuring basic research and applied technology innovation, scientific research institutions and enterprises on two wings. Accelerate the establishment of a market-oriented innovation model for agricultural information technology applications. Give full play to the role of capital and the market, and establish a development model of enterprise-led agricultural information technology innovation, that is, the entire innovation process starts with enterprise customized research and development products and services, forcing scientific research institutions and innovation systems to focus on industrial issues to carry out targeted product innovation and technological innovation And supporting forward-looking basic research.

Fourth is to strengthen the establishment of systematic and forward-looking agricultural informatization policies. The policy system should not only cover the entire life cycle of agricultural information (data) collection, governance, mining, application and service, but also run through the entire industrial chain of agricultural information infrastructure construction, key technology innovation, product development, technology application and service marketing. , But also include the interfaces related to the horizontal integration of the agricultural industry chain and other industry chains such as manufacturing, service, and finance. The focus includes: strengthening data (information) co-construction and sharing policies and standards work, encouraging open access to information (data), and promoting various types of scientific research information and big data, natural resources and environmental information and big data, and agriculture that are funded by national public funds. Mandatory open access to information and big data produced in the production and operation process, and encourages the big data business sharing model. The central and local governments at all levels have vigorously strengthened policies for the construction of agricultural information infrastructure to provide basic information infrastructure support for agricultural technological innovation, agricultural industry information technology applications, and agricultural operations. Encourage scientific research institutions and enterprises to jointly carry out cutting-edge exploration, original innovation and application innovation in the field of agricultural information technology, encourage enterprises to increase investment in agricultural information technology research and development, develop innovative enterprises, and encourage social capital to be more actively invested in agricultural modernization. Establish a policy support system that promotes a strong information service network oriented to “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”. Strengthen policy subsidies for the application of agricultural information technology to overcome the disadvantages of long innovation cycles and low return on investment in the agricultural sector.

In short, my country’s agricultural and rural informatization construction should strengthen the construction of informatization service capabilities, enhance agricultural information technology innovation, accelerate the promotion of agricultural transformation and upgrading, and transform from extensive to fine, precise, and green, and create a data and information-driven development with Chinese characteristics. The road to green agriculture.


Post time: Mar-06-2021