Ministry of Agriculture intends to implement digital agriculture plan by 2025
The plan will build a digital resource system with five types of data:
- agricultural natural resources
- important agricultural varieties resources
- rural collective assets
- rural housing bases, farmers and new farmers, and
- digital agriculture
It is designed to promote computerization of cultivation industry, smarter livestock industry, smarter fisheries, digitalization of seed industry, diversification of new business types, and a comprehensive process of quality and safety management, and increase the production capacity of digitalization of agriculture.
Japan JST China news, January 23, 2020
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