An information meeting was held on March 16, 2023 for the Agriculture Information System Applications Country Model Feasibility Study Project signed between TÜSSİDE and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of Information Technologies.
At the briefing meeting, it was stated that a strategy and road map will be created to fully record the agricultural product chain, institutionalize annual monitoring and evaluation studies and ensure the effective use of agricultural information system applications. In the presentation made by the project coordinator, Senior Senior Researcher Barış Çarıkçı, it was stated that the current situation in our country was emphasized, country models and literature were being examined, and through this approach, agricultural production, planning and yield estimation would be approached with a broad perspective based on scientific foundations.
Current approaches and current developments on information systems and monitoring tools, which are within the scope and purpose of the project, were shared with the participants. Discussions were held on the model design being developed for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for agricultural production forecasting, stock management and production planning in Turkey.
At the last stage of the meeting, the Technical Committees and their members, which were formed from experts and academics in the sector to support and guide the work within the scope of the project, were introduced. In addition, information was provided on the following outputs to be produced after the studies:
- Examination of good practice examples in the world related to agricultural information system and applications in our country and making suggestions for Turkey,
- Proposal of a sample agricultural information system model,
- Determination of the approximate cost and completion time of the proposed model,
- Determining the parameters that can be used for the objectives of the model and mapping the data sources that will provide the parameters.
Participants from the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and TÜSSİDE took part in the informative meeting where various information was shared about the scope of the project, project activities and the outputs to be prepared.
