Abstract: In recent years, with rapid development of technology, traditional agriculture is also being reconstructed and upgraded by advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing．Digital agriculture has become an important component of digital economy．Therefore, protection and utilization of agricultural data have become a major issue of widespread concern．Collection, annotation and confirmation of ownership, trading, and protection of relevant data can all be transformed into industrial value．To promote development of digital economy and data governance, China has issued a series of policies and regulations, established organizations such as the National Data Bureau and data exchanges．However, laws and regulations on data confirmation of ownership have not yet been issued, and mechanisms based on agricultural data confirmation of ownership have not been established, posing certain risks to agricultural data and having a certain impact on releasing value of agricultural data elements and promoting participants in various aspects of digital agriculture to share dividends of digital economy development．Based on current situation of various aspects of agricultural data, risks and hidden dangers of agricultural data were analyzed, necessity of agricultural data confirmation of ownership was discussed, strived to provide a certain theoretical basis for relevant enterprises, institutions, and scholars to explore path and establish mechanisms for promoting agricultural data confirmation of ownership．