Helping farmers enjoy the "digital dividend" of agriculture | mobile phones | dividends
Recently, the 2023 National Farmers Mobile Application Skills Training Week was launched. The digital age is changing rapidly. Through a series of training, more farmers can cross the "digital divide", ride the "digital fast", and share the "digital dividend", which helps to promote agricultural modernization and accelerate the realization of rural revitalization.
For the vast majority of farmers, mobile phones are becoming "new agricultural tools". In the agricultural province of Heilongjiang, smart agriculture is flourishing, with various agricultural applications emerging one after another. The deep participation of mobile phones can be seen in various aspects such as purchasing agricultural inputs, planting and production, receiving subsidies, and selling agricultural products. With the acceleration of agricultural modernization, the "territory" of smart agriculture will continue to expand, and mobile application functions will become increasingly powerful. Farmers must continuously learn to master relevant skills and truly turn mobile phones into "good helpers" in agricultural production.
At present, the training of mobile application skills for farmers nationwide is not limited to the field of smart agriculture, but also has rich training content in agricultural product e-commerce, rural industry development, and rural information services, aiming to promote the deep integration of mobile applications with farmers' production and life, and help farmers increase their income and become rich.
It should also be noted that some mobile applications have high thresholds, and short-term training alone is difficult to ensure that farmers are proficient in relevant skills. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the establishment of a normalized training mechanism. For example, adopting diversified training models such as sending education to rural areas and online guidance, creating a number of digital literacy and skill training bases for farmers, allowing them to learn locally, anytime and anywhere, and receive timely help and solutions when encountering problems.
At the same time, the relevant training work cannot be "sprinkled with pepper noodles". Training work should closely meet the needs of farmers and emphasize precise training. Key training will be given to new agricultural management entities such as professional big households, family farms, cooperatives, as well as rural youth such as college student village officials and returning migrant workers, to effectively leverage their radiating and driving role. This will enable these individuals to first become proficient and then apply their skills to improve the overall skills of farmers.
Currently, information technology is accelerating its penetration and integration into various fields of agriculture and rural areas, but rural network infrastructure is still weak. While strengthening the soft investment in mobile application skills training for farmers, it is also necessary to strengthen the hard investment in rural network infrastructure. For example, accelerating the construction of rural 5G networks, the Internet of Things, and smart information platforms. Through multiple measures, let agriculture, rural areas and farmers enter the "Internet plus" fast lane, so as to achieve rural revitalization and farmers' prosperity, and promote the early realization of an agricultural power.
