The eFarmer Project

Farmer Communication Services for CAP

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager

Tibor Sutóris eFarmer project manager

Novitech Plc, Slovakia [email protected]

Phone: +00421-55-3274111 Budapest eFarmer Conference 31 Jan – 01 Feb 2007 1

     Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager

Administrative Project details

Contract No. EDC 11221 - eContent Programme - Business project Concluded with Directorate General for Information Society, European Commission on 24th December 2004 Project Consortium: Duration : Project start date : Total budget : EC contribution : 9 partners lead by Novitech Plc., Slovakia 26 months 1 th January 2005 € 3.739.711

€ 1.899.602

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Participants and Roles

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Novitech

(SK) – coordinator, implementer

Slovak Chamber of Agriculture and Food Industry

participant (SK) - agro-

Slovak University of Agriculture Szent István University

(SK) - academic participant (HU) - academic participant, implementer

Small and Medium Size Enterprises Union

(HU) - agro-participant

National Council of Agricultural Chambers Agriculture Chamber of the Czech Republic

(PL) - agro-participant (CZ) – agro-participant

Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry

participant (CZ) – academic  +

Food and Agriculture SEUR

(HU)

– organization of the UN

  Agro-participant – manage demonstration activities, specify country specific requirements of eFARMER services, RPA interfaces Academic participant - develop (collect) community standard CAP content, organize trainings Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference 31 Jan – 01 Feb 2007 3

Expected Results of the Project

 Creation of a FARMER content transformation system producing up-to-date rural-aid related content services (the static use of

eFARMER content

),  Introduction of a set of rural aid compilation and electronic submission web services (the dynamic use of

eFARMER content

),  Demonstration of the sustainability of the business model for providing these services to target farmers on a commercial basis through a network of representatives using eFarmer services – so called eFarmers (

eFARMER demonstration

). Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference 31 Jan – 01 Feb 2007 4

Users and Beneficiaries

 eFarmer services users :    eFarmers (advisors) authorised by farmers Single farmers (direct access) Agriculture associations, Farmer advisors  Benefits for users :  Access to up-to-date information – CAP content (=what are the farmer entitlements)   To save communication cost with RPA by surface mail or by person, no penalties for missing claim submission term and returned claims, Error correction – significantly reduce claim errors and rate of incomplete documents 

Benefits for RPA:

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Reducing transaction costs in information dissemination Reducing transaction costs in claim processing

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PSI Re-used and Value Added

(PSI = Public Sector Information) 

Improve access to high quality digital content on the global network

- creation of the structured CAP content, 

Improve access in multiple languages

languages, – providing relevant CAP content dedicated to the farmers in V4 countries – the eFarmer system will communicate in English and four national 

Accelerate development of the European information society

– Increase the use of information technology within agricultural sector through eFarmer agents, 

Contribution to the objectives of the updated eEurope 2005 Action Plan

– the eFarmer system brings new opportunities for private investments – at the end of the project an eFarmer Plc. Shareholder company is about to be established.

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Cross-border Nature of Content and Services

 The project builds cross-border services transforming public sector CAP content. This new content is derived from the following sources:   Community standard content (DG Agriculture) Country specific CAP content from V4 countries  Support for cross-border farmers. Example: farmers in EU country A can use CAP content and submit claim in EU country B.

eFarmer Services = One common CAP window for an EU farmer for: Information retrieval and Claim submission

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Communication model between EC and Farmers

Publisher of regulations

EC DG AGRI JRC MARS Unit

Accreditations A1..A25

1259/1999 EC regulations Feedback Country - 1 IACS Processing Rural Payment Agencies Country - 2 National regulations Farmers

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Farmers ( Claimants )

The eFarmer Service Model

eFarmers (Direct users) eFarmer Plc (Service provider) Payment Agency ....

....

Internet ....

Clearing Fees for assistance to farmers provided by eFarmers (sf4) Payments for services

Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager

Fees for services provided to eFarmers by eFarmer Plc (cfx,sfx) Services

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How the results were achieved

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Creation of the Content transformation module Basic Content completion Creation of the Claim Submission module Customisation into national languages Content completion with national documents Utilisation of Claim Submission module with national schemes (mainly SAPS, TOP-UP, LFA) Dissemination of the results: a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

Testing the solution within the Consortium Training of eFarmers WorkShops InfoDays International Conference Preparation of the business plan, future activities Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager Budapest eFarmer Conference 31 Jan – 01 Feb 2007 10

Results within countries Hungary

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Electronic Content creation

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165 documents in national language

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86 documents from general CAP

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More documents can be found on www.eFarmer.net

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Documents are uploaded continuously

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Claim Submission module

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Module contains 8 schemes – SAPS, LFA, Top-ups...

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Direct electronic claim submission to MVH – tested in operational mode during 2006

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More functionality under preparation

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Results within countries Hungary

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Dissemination activities

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eFarmer trainings – 37 trained and certified eFarmers

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eFarmer WorkShops – 2 WorkShop with 39 attendees

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eFarmer InfoDays (still running) – SZIE provided 10 InfoDays with 236 attendees, KKVE provided 21 InfoDays with 245 attendees

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Responses from the dissemination activities were used for eFarmer portal improvements

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Sustainability of business model

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Dissemination activity visitors interested in using eFarmer services

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Business plan preparations

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Services still remain free of charge during 2007

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Results within countries

Monthly portal visitors [ www.efarmer.hu

] during year 2006 Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager

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Results within countries Slovakia

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Electronic Content creation

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150 documents in national language

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86 documents from general CAP

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Documents are uploaded continuously

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Claim Submission module

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Module contains 10 schemes – SAPS, LFA, Top-ups...

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Direct electronic claim submission to PPA development.

– agreement with PPA not reached yet and waiting for public interface. General simulation interface currently under



More functionality under preparation

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Results within countries Slovakia

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Dissemination activities

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eFarmer trainings – 23 trained and certified eFarmers

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eFarmer WorkShops – 1 WorkShop with 33 attendees

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eFarmer InfoDays – SAU together with SPPK provided 15 InfoDays with 700 attendees



Dissemination activity feedback was used for eFarmer portal improvements

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Sustainability of business model



Dissemination activity visitors interested in using eFarmer services



Business plan preparations



Services still remain free of charge during 2007

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Results within countries

Monthly portal visitors [ www.efarmer.sk

] during year 2006 Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager

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Results within countries Poland

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Electronic Content created

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230 documents in national language



86 documents from general CAP



Documents are uploaded continuously

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Claim Submission module

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Module contains 9 schemes – SAPS, LFA, Top-ups...



Direct electronic claim submission to ARiMR under development.

– discussions with ARiMR still ongoing and waiting for public interface. General simulation interface is currently



More functionality under preparation

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Results within countries Poland

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Dissemination activities

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eFarmer trainings – 183 trained and certified eFarmers

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eFarmer WorkShops – 10 WorkShop with 280 attendees

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eFarmer InfoDays – KRIR provided 22 InfoDays with 600 attendees

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Dissemination activity feedback was used for eFarmer portal improvements



Sustainability of business model



Dissemination activity visitors interested in using eFarmer services



Business plan preparations



Services still remain free of charge during 2007

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Results within countries

Monthly portal visitors [ www.efarmer.pl

] during year 2006 Tibor Sutóris, eFarmer Project Manager

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Results within countries Czech republic

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Electronic Content created

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28 documents in national language

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86 documents from general CAP



Documents are uploaded continuously

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Claim Submission module

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Module contains 4 schemes – SAPS, LFA, Top-ups, and Sugar

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Direct electronic claim submission to SZIF development.

– agreement with SZIF not reached yet. Waiting for public interface. General simulation interface is currently under



More functionality under preparation

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Results within countries Czech republic

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Dissemination activities

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eFarmer trainings – 43 trained and certified eFarmers

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eFarmer WorkShops – 2 WorkShop with 71 attendees

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eFarmer InfoDays – AKCR together with MZLU provided 10 InfoDays with 896 attendees



Dissemination activity feedback was used for eFarmer portal improvements



Sustainability of business model



Dissemination activity visitors interested in using eFarmer services



Business plan preparations



Services still remain free of charge during 2007

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Results within countries

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eFarmer portal – main V4 page

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eFarmer portal – main HU page

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eFarmer portal – choosing an appropriate scheme

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eFarmer portal – Claim completion

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eFarmer portal – scheme assistant

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eFarmer portal – scheme assistant

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eFarmer portal – Content

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eFarmer portal - eLearning

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eFarmer portal - eLearning

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Thank you for your attention!

Contact: Tibor Sutóris – project manager e-mail: [email protected]

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