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community agricultural extension organization improve productivity, profitability, and global
has five functions: (i) transferring scientific competitiveness. E-extension focuses on three
and technical advances; (ii) consulting on contents: (i) distance training (e-learning),
cooperative development; (iii) providing (ii) online consultation for farmers (through
information on market prices, guiding farmers the Farmer Cooperation Center), and (iii)
to grow whatever crops/animals and where to online agricultural commerce services (via
sell their products; (iv) educating farmers on the agribusiness marketplace). E-extension
digital technology application; (v) consulting provides mobile platforms to exchange
the development of rural industries. In valuable and up-to-date information on
addition, community agricultural extension agricultural technologies (for livestock and
officers need to transmit information and crop production, veterinary medicine, plant
orientation of the sector relating to people’s protection, fertilizer, soil, processing, post-
lives and acquire knowledge to support the harvest technologies, etc.), information
locality and closely link with businesses. on plant varieties and livestock breeding;
“E-extension” is a network of organizations agricultural start-ups, incubation technology
that provide a more efficient alternative and commerce; agricultural weather; the
to the traditional extension system for the market for agricultural products in regions of
agriculture, fishery, and natural resource Viet Nam and the world. Besides, there are
sectors. E-extension maximizes information scientific and technological information and
and communication technology to achieve a scientific research products. The e-extension
modernized agriculture and fisheries sector. allows farmers to interact online with extension
It focuses on creating an electronic and staff and agricultural experts to get advice.
interactive connection for farmers, fishermen
and stakeholders to meet and transact to

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in the period 2021-2030, and vision to 2050
in the period 2021-2030, and vision to 2050