Abstract: As the core production factor in the digital economy era, data possesses significant economic characteristics and exerts a positive effect on optimizing factor allocation and promoting economic transformation and development. Relying on data, the development of digital agriculture is the essential path to agricultural modernization. Based on the provincial and agricultural conditions, Yunnan has accelerated the transformation of agricultural development mode, achieved remarkable results in agricultural modernization, and embarked on a path of agricultural modernization with Yunnan's practical characteristics. However, Yunnan faces shortcomings in agricultural modernization, such as low total factor productivity, low digitalization, low organizational innovation and service capabilities, and low-end whole industry chain. Therefore, it is necessary to fully leverage the characteristics of data, accelerate the cultivation of the data market, and drive Yunnan's agricultural modernization through agricultural digital transformation. Yunnan's agricultural modernization at the production, management, and industry system levels can be accelerated by harnessing the penetration, intelligence, innovation, and integration effects of data.

Key words: data elements, agriculture, modernization, digital economy, Yunnan