Promotion of Policy White Paper
- On January 24, 2018
Our senior consultant Blagoja Mukanov was the presenter of the Policy White Paper Promotion for the project “Collaborative platform for ICT in Agricultural Extension in WB based on V4 best practices”.
The leading partner Foundation Agro – Centre for Education (FACE) and the consortium partner from Hungary “KISKUNSÁGI NATURE PROTECTION Nonprofit Co.” performed a promotional event in front of representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, representatives from the National Agriculture Extension of Republic of Macedonia and individual farmers . As the project manager of the project, our consultant Blagoja Mukanov presented two important documents on this event: the consolidated report for situation analysis for ICT in agricultural extension in WBC and V4 countries as well as the Policy White Paper.
As main conclusion from the event were the following:
- Of all 20 participants almost all were using mobile phones, and 8 from those use smartphones.
- The participants expressed that all current public information systems for agricultural purposes are very complicated and not reliable. They have pointed out the example of the Ministry’s web portal for agricultural prices. Similar case is the web portal of the National Agriculture Extension Agency.
- To the question what would be a problem and an obstacle for digitalization of the NEA system the participants responded:
- Institutional “vanity”
- The fear of approaching their superiors
- Weak image of the National Agricultural Extension Agency (probably because of weak management so far)
- Participants have agreed that most common ways of communication with advisors and other participant in the farming business, through mobile phones and face to face.
- Employees in the NAE system have emphasized that absence of interoperability among the institution in the agricultural sector significantly weakens the Extension System. For example, employees think that because of the fact that they do not have access to the farm register system which causes serious problems in their every day work.
- In the context of digitalization, many advisors have emphasized that Agro-Stock Exchange will significantly change the situation in the Agriculture and farmers perception about new technologies.
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