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Information Technology in Agriculture: Shocked and admiration
Update: 10/31/2014
Senior IT Forum Vietnam - ASOCIO 2014 (held on 28-31 / 10) took the main theme for this new field in Vietnam.
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ASOCIO ICT Summit 2014 is the biggest international event in the Asian region's IT and Oceania organized by the Computing Industry in Asia - Oceania annually held alternately in the regional economy.
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Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam spoke at the forum
After 11 years in place, this is the 2nd Vietnam are entitled to host this important event. It is particularly in this year's forum, more than 700 delegates including leaders of associations and groups of 20 leading IT economies in Asia and Oceania have a focus topic forum for discussion of issues of IT application in agricultural SX, particularly in association with the context of agriculture in Vietnam is strong restructuring.
With the significance of the forum, at the opening session which was held on 29/10, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam attended and important speech.
Welcomed and appreciated inclusion initiatives on the use of ICT in agriculture and rural areas in the forum, Deputy Prime Minister of assessment: Vietnam SX has many advantages in agriculture, but agriculture in Vietnam is not yet associated more with technology, especially not associated much with IT.
According to Deputy Prime Minister, in the new context, Vietnam continues to define IT as a key factor important impetus for the development, improvement of national competitiveness and international integration, is the The fastest route to Vietnam reached middle income trap, step on the Knowledge Economy.
At the opening session of the forum yesterday, there is the presence of his very special Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan.
Yukio Hatoyama said after a high-level visits between the two countries Vietnam and Japan, the two countries have many commitments to promote cooperation in the field of agriculture, especially recently, the Ministry of Agriculture - Forestry - Fisheries Japan has launched the initiative "Strategy agricultural value chain globally" to bring Japanese technology abroad, particularly including Vietnam.
The characteristics proportional SX-scale agriculture is bigger household, agricultural cooperative model associated with the IT community in Japan is a way to do that Vietnam is worth studying. According to Mr. Hatoyama, Japan now has the use of ICT in various stages of agricultural SX, the group focuses on 4 main applications include: The system satellite navigation instructions associated with agricultural machinery such as tillage machines, harvesters ... help operating the motorized agricultural machines work more efficiently; networks of sensors mounted controls monitoring software SX, particularly in the greenhouse intelligent control technology that automatically ...
Japan is also promoting research and producting all kinds of agricultural robots automatically harvesting and sorting of agricultural products. Ro-bot automatically will gradually replace direct labor in various stages of labor to help reduce risk and work on behalf of farmers ...
Finally, Japan has an operating system of agricultural trade makes electronic distribution of agricultural products, monitor and analyze the market very modern. With the extensive applications of IT in agriculture SX, Japan hopes to be an active partner in helping Vietnam to gradually approach this field in the future.
At a forum with the theme "ICT in agriculture restructuring" took place yesterday, many speakers from major IT corporations in agricultural water development in Asia such as Japan, Korea, Israel, Taiwan ... has "released" more advanced IT automation applications in agriculture SX makes many participants from the host country not surprised.
Every 4 years in Vietnam, Mr. Matan Nemenoff, CEO of Orca International Group (Israel) compare Scale of agricultural production land Israel has many small special breed Vietnam due to extremely dry soil conditions limited and narrow, however, almost all of the stages from cultivation to harvesting, preserving current consumption Israeli farmers have adopted IT and almost entirely farmers no longer had to be present in the field .
"IT capital to help those disadvantaged farmers may rise, and the future they will be enjoyed more by IT. So with institutional reform, I hope the achievements in the field of IT agriculture, but delegates at the forum to share lessons will be applied to Vietnam to develop agriculture on demand clean, green and sustainable "- Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.
Accordingly, just a tablet or a smart phone with an internet connection, the sensors and software automation remote control will help farmers know how to fertilize gardens, how much fertilizer , what sort of fertilizer, no need to water the area, how much watering is just ..., and they only need one click to auto-cropping systems work.
The sensors are widely used in the SX region also helps farmers are constantly updating the indicators of humidity, temperature, carbon dioxide, light intensity ... Based on these data, the machine calculation will give farmers what to adjust the indicator, adjust how and when to adjust via tablet or smart phone wherever they are, anywhere.
IT has helped the country extremely difficult conditions for agricultural SX as Israel can agricultural self-sufficiency and export. In 1955, Israeli farmers each animal is an average of 15 people, but so far every farmer can feed over 150 people.
Arava desert driest Israel, rainfall is only 20 mm / year, but this is the best SX rich vegetables. An Israeli farmer is able to manage his entire SX stages of cultivation area of 5-6 hectares without spending what little manual labor ...
"Vietnam is now the second largest coffee export world, but yields only 1.8 tons / ha. If applicable farming technologies to automate as Israel, you will have yields 6 tons / ha, which is high quality coffee a lot. All thanks to IT, "said Matan Nemenoff share.
Mr. Wataru Kuribayashi from Fujitsu Kyushu Co., Ltd. of Japan take another example: Current Company Gyuho Sus Fujitsu software is being widely used in cattle farms in Japan. This software can detect reproductive period of cows walking through the identification of cattle, can help farmers make decisions any time of fertilization is most appropriate.
"The intelligent sensor system controlled via remote automation software in most greenhouse farms in Japan today can help farmers all work, they do not have a farm, but like always people outside the field, "he Wataru comparison.
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