E-commerce of agricultural products of China has developed rapidly and network transaction scale has doubled in the recent. According to preliminary estimate, network transaction amount of agricultural product last year exceeded RMB 100 billion yuan accounting for 3% of sales volume of agricultural products.

It has shown according to statistics that there are more than 3,000 e-commerce platforms involved in agricultural products in China presenting rapid growing trend. Meanwhile, e-commerce of agricultural means of production and leisure agriculture has started too.

The ministry of agriculture introduces that e-commerce of agriculture is just one performance of “Internet + modern agriculture” in agricultural field. “Internet + modern agriculture” has also obtained preliminary achievements in internet of things in agriculture and agricultural information service. The ministry of agriculture has implemented demonstration projects and regional pilot projects of application of internet of things of national agriculture in eight provinces (districts and cities) including Beijing, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia in the aspect of internet of things of agriculture and has widely applied the technology of internet of things of agriculture in aspects of facility agriculture, livestock and aquiculture, planting of field crops and quality safety tracing of agricultural products and has summarized over 200 mature scale application modes, which has obtained obvious effects in water saving, pesticide saving, fertilizer-saving and labor force saving.

It is reported that the ministry of agriculture will promote “Internet + modern agriculture” from the following four aspects: highlight to implement demonstration projects of application of internet of things of agriculture, greatly boost the agricultural mode and technology of internet of things and constantly enlarge scale degree of application of internet of things in the production link; significantly boost e-commerce development of agriculture and promote to form new pattern of double-way smooth circulation including agricultural products going to downtown and agricultural means of production and consumer goods go to rural areas focusing on agricultural products, especially fresh agricultural products and agricultural means of agriculture in the operation link; strengthen innovative application of big data in the management link; accelerate to promote information to access to villages in the service link.