Digital transformation in sustainable agricultural development in Lam Dong

On the morning of July 4, the Management Board of the High-Tech Agricultural Park of Ho Chi Minh City coordinated with the Department of Science and Technology of Lam Dong province and Da Lat University to organize the launching ceremony of the Contest "Innovative start-up in the field of high-tech agriculture in 2025" with the theme "Digital transformation in sustainable agricultural development" in Lam Dong.

Báo Lâm Đồng•04/07/2025

Delegates attending the launching ceremony of the Competition

In his opening speech, Mr. Pham Dinh Dung, Head of the Management Board of the Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Agricultural Zone, Head of the Organizing Committee of the Competition, said that Lam Dong, facing the challenges of climate change and global competition, cannot lack the role of digital transformation applications to help optimize production, improve the value chain and competitiveness of local agricultural products.

Mr. Pham Dinh Dung, Head of the Management Board of the High-Tech Agricultural Park of Ho Chi Minh City, Head of the Organizing Board of the Competition, Delivers the Opening Speech(2).jpg — Mr. Pham Dinh Dung, Head of the Management Board of Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Agricultural Park, Head of the Organizing Committee of the Contest delivered the opening speech.

Head of the Committee Pham Dinh Dung emphasized: With the goal of promoting, incubating and accompanying startup ideas, breakthrough solutions with high practical application value, contributing to building a strong innovative startup ecosystem, the Contest "Innovative Startup in the field of high-tech agriculture in 2025" with the theme "Digital transformation in sustainable agricultural development" aims to create a large-scale, creative and professional playground to present ideas, connect resources, and realize business projects, contributing to bringing technology into agricultural production practices, solving specific problems from local to national practices.

Dr. Nguyen Van Ngoc, Vice-Principal of Dalat University, delivers a speech at the contest launch ceremony (2).jpg — Dr. Nguyen Van Ngoc, Vice Rector of Dalat University, spoke at the launching ceremony of the Contest.

Dr. Nguyen Van Ngoc, Vice Rector of Da Lat University, speaking at the launching ceremony of the Contest, said that Da Lat University is a multidisciplinary, multi-field, high-quality training, research, and community service center with prestige in the South Central Coast region and the whole country. In the field of scientific research and knowledge transfer, the University has achieved many outstanding results with more than 1,200 prestigious scientific articles and works published in the past 5 years, including 415 articles in the ISI/Scopus system and 799 articles published in journals with ISSN codes; 14 national-level topics/projects, 14 international topics, 38 ministerial-level and provincial-level topics, and 433 school-level scientific research topics...

Mr. Ho Anh Dung, Director of F1 CNSH Company Limited, shares about starting a business in the field of high-tech agriculture.

Dalat University has proactively connected with businesses to support students in implementing projects as well as participating in startup playgrounds inside and outside the province, and has achieved many achievements such as: Finalist of the fourth Startup Competition organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Business Research and Enterprise Support (BSA) (2018); First prize in the Provincial Creative Startup Ideas and Models Competition organized by the People's Committee of Lam Dong province (2018); Third prize in the Competition to find innovative startup talents organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology (2019); Encouragement prize in the Provincial Startup Competition organized by the Department of Science and Technology of Lam Dong (2023)...

Mr. Peter Hoa Nguyen, CEO of Veron Group Technology Joint Stock Company, shares about the application of IoT and AI technology in agricultural production.

Vice Principal Nguyen Van Ngoc commented: In the context of the economy entering a period of strong digital transformation, the agricultural sector - one of the important pillars - is also facing the urgent need to innovate to adapt, develop sustainably and increase value. Therefore, innovative startups in the field of high-tech agriculture are a promising direction...

Representative of Lam Dong Department of Science and Technology speaking at the ceremony

The digital transformation competition in sustainable agricultural development focuses on areas such as: Management, production, processing, preservation of edible and medicinal mushrooms; medicinal plants; orchids and ornamental plants; plant cell technology; microbiology; biology; cultivation; aquaculture; animal husbandry; biological products; application of information technology, IoT, big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence, automation, robots, drones...

The official launch of the innovative startup competition in the field of high-tech agriculture in 2025 (2).jpg — Dr. Nguyen Van Ngoc, Vice Rector of Dalat University, spoke at the launching ceremony of the Contest.

Participants in the Competition include: Start-up businesses, youth, students, lecturers of universities, colleges, research units, organizations and individuals nationwide who are interested in and have ideas and technologies suitable for the field of high-tech agriculture...