INFORMATION DATABASE AND EXTENTION SYSTEM OF THE HUNGARIAN SHEEP AND GOAT SECTOR - ON CD
WHERE TO USE IT?
Székelyhidi, Tamás Kovács, Attila
Agricultural Cooperative Gödöll University of Agricultural Sciences
Development International / Gödöll, Hungary
Volunteers in Overseas
Cooperative Assistance
Budapest, Hungary
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ABSTRACT
The USAID-financed (United States Agency for International Development) ACDI/VOCA (Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance) is an American non-profit organization providing assistance for Hungarian agricultural small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) within the framework of its rural development programme by providing technical assistance, developing training materials and organizing educational programmes.
In many cases sheep and goat husbandry mean the only choice to make a living for people in certain regions of the country. For this reason this sector continues to play an important role in regional development. The development of production and marketing integrations for the sheep sector is of high priority in the government's regional development programme as well.
Of the above-mentioned, the information system and databases for the Sheep and Goat sector have been recorded on a CD. This is the first sectorial management system prepared in Hungary, which contains all the information from the different technologies to the decision-supporting system, and thus promotes comprehensive extension services.
The information database and the software on the CD were prepared so as to provide fast and effective help for the user, i.e. mainly the SMEs.
In the preparation of the CD, ACDI/VOCA have worked together with the Gödöllõ University of Economic Sciences, the Research Institute for Animal Breeding and Nutrition in Herceghalom and Awassi Rt.
The CD contains an advisory and decision-making support system and an information catalogue of a sector:
Decision support system of the sector
Decision support system is a tool
In the advisory works and in extension management;
In the management of monitoring systems;
In the management of enterprise.
On the CD there are three software packages
Planning Goat 1.0 version of farm management;
Sheep 1.0 version of farm management;
Sheep-goat 1.1 version of extension (This lets the user make more analyses and predictions).
Advisory and decision making support system
Planning programme;
Farm management programme;
Animal registration programme;
Feed optimization programme;
Business plan preparation programme;
Database handling programme;
The users' manual and teaching material are available for each programme.
Information catalogue for the sector
Literature for the sector;
TQM for the sector;
Catalogue of technologies and suppliers for the sector;
Catalogue of forms to be filled out;
Associations, organizations in the sector;
Support programmes for the sector;
List of seedstocks and breeding farms;
Processing technologies for dairy products;
Small scale processing technologies;
Product catalogue;
The use of this CD opens the way to quality communication between
Entrepreneur and bank;
Entrepreneur and advisor;
Entrepreneur and bookkeeper;
Entrepreneur and supervising registration organization.
Fields of use
Education;
Extension service;
Research;
Farm management;
Bank monitorings.
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