Grab cooperates with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance to train 40% of cooperatives online by 2025.
For decades, Mr. Pham Van Lo’s cooperative only sold goods to merchants, now with the trend of putting goods online to reach more users, he also started learning online sales.
“Following the training session from this morning until now, I have also received some knowledge that I am very eager to hear, so that I can slowly learn and sell products step by step.”, Mr. Pham Van Le, director of Nhan Nhon Nghia cooperative, Phong Dien, City. Can Tho shared with VTV reporter.
According to the national digital transformation program that the Government has set out, each farmer will be a trader, and each cooperative will be an enterprise applying digital technology. The Vietnam Cooperative Alliance also said that within the next 3 years, about 35-40% of farmers’ cooperatives will be able to access digital transformation and increase sales on commercial platforms. e-commerce. Therefore, sales training programs for farmers will be deployed more strongly.
Recently, more than 100 agricultural cooperatives in the Mekong Delta such as Mr. Le’s cooperative mentioned above have been familiarized with technology and online business models, thereby accessing new users and improving opportunities. turnover.
According to Grab Vietnam, after a year of piloting, together with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Vietnam Cooperative Union, the parties have completed the process and standardized information to support farmers to upload goods to the platform. number. By the end of last year, 2 million farmers across the country had been trained in digital skills, and nearly 50,000 agricultural products were listed on the e-commerce platform. However, this is only the beginning.
“They don’t have much knowledge about the market and consumption, they only focus on farming and the value chain, they focus more on the early stages. We have shops, supermarkets or restaurants, which act as a bridge to connect to connect between users and farmers in the most effective way.”, said Ms. Le Thi Thanh Hong, Director of Development and Strategy at GrabMart.
The method of working with farmers is hands-on, so to achieve the goal by 2025, about 40% of cooperatives applying technology to sales will have to organize more training courses.
“Facilitating support to organize more courses like this, possibly going further down to each district. We will select typical products, products that respond quickly to integration, and provide timely information for cooperatives to access.“, Mr. Vu Quang Phong, General Director of Trade and Investment Promotion Center – Vietnam Union of Cooperatives shared with VTV.
A representative of the Union of Cooperatives said that it is necessary to continuously improve knowledge for farmers so that goods and agricultural products can reach consumers as quickly as possible, but at the same time promote the initiative of farmers. people.
According to a survey, nearly 50% of rice and vegetable farmers in Vietnam, when asked, said they want to apply digital technology in agriculture. That shows that Vietnamese farmers are more interested in digitization than anywhere else in the region. This is creating a great opportunity for farmers to make a breakthrough in production and modern agriculture.
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