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Magyar Internetes Agrárinformatikai Újság N^o 04	HU ISSN 1419-1652
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Agricultural On-Line Information System for Central and Eastern Europe Abstract for EFITA`99

On-line Information System for advising, education and research in the Agricultural in Central and Eastern Europe (TRANS-AGRAR).
Requirements and Prototype

Volker Mothes, Laszlo Pitlik, Karlheinz Wendt

In the Central and Eastern European Countries a wide range of farms and agricultural enterprises as well as the agro-food industry have been developed. Although they get more or less support by the government they all have to prove their competitiveness on the market. Therefore, these farms and enterprises have

to adapt the political and economical environment,
to plan and realize their inputs (e. g. seeds, fertilizer, pesticides as well as investments in land, buildings, machines and labor),
to organize their production and
to sell their products.

Many of them focus their activities on local or regional markets, whereas others want to deal on national and international markets. All these activities induce a special demand for information, which can be satisfied by advising and education. The on-line information system TRANS-AGRAR mainly based on new Information Technologies (ITs) shall be established, especially to support advising, education and research in the Central and Eastern European Countries on their way into the European Union (EU).

The above-mentioned on-line information system TRANS-AGRAR can only be realized step-by-step. There are two tasks are realizable until September 1999:

detecting the demand for information in the agricultural primary production, the agro-food industry and the agroservice and
analyzing the technical and technological requirements for an on-line information system and developing a prototype of an on-line information system referring to a special area of information needed and including alternate forms of on-line presentation.

To realize task one, our presentation should be focused on checking for new trends of Internet-applications in advising and education. Main topics are emphasized.

Support of advisory, education and research in agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe.
Enforce the use of the technical and technological progress in farms in Central and Eastern Europe.
Detection of potentials which are usable by international cooperation in agricultural trade, especially by including Central and Eastern European Countries in international agricultural trade.

Task two includes an analysis of the technical and technological requirements for the on-line information system TRANS-AGRAR and the development of a TRANS-AGRAR prototype referring to the cost-cutting effects of horizontal cooperation in using agricultural machines.

This prototype shows both, the technical realization of information exchange via Internet and a proposal to solve a special problem of farm management. It should be used in education in the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and in the Agricultural University Gödöllö.

This contribution provides an overview about problems and alternate solutions for Internet- presentations aimed to support agribusiness mainly in Central and Eastern Europe.

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