Information System of Research, Studies and Consulting for Agriculture in Lithuania

Lithuania, as far as other candidate countries, is in the stage of preparation for joining EU. Following the requirements of EU, goes creation of main parts of IS for Agriculture, such as IACS, FADN and Agricultural Market IS. Farmers and agricultural enterprises will have to provide a lot of information for institutions, responsible for development of these systems. To increase interests of produces to provide confidential data about themselves, to help them in shortest time and way get information for farm s management, increasing effectiveness of producing and quality of production, to concentrate information for teaching of students in Universities and Colleges and consulting of farmers and specialists of agricultural enterprises in Centres of Lithuanian Agricultural Advisory Service and other institutions, it was made decision to start creation of IS of Research, Studies and Consulting (ISRSC) for agriculture. In databases (subsystems) of ISRSC would be collected data about: 1. Institutions of research, studies and consulting in agriculture, its addressees and areas of responsibility. 2. Specialists of agriculture - consultants, researchers and lectures of universities, colleges and other agricultural schools. 3. Programs, projects and other kinds of scientific research activities, which are finished, in stage of investigation or preparation. 4. Scientific, methodical and technological publications in area of agriculture. 5. Open information systems, which provide data for agriculture and conditions of usage of them. 6. Authorities and other institutions in sector of agricultural, its addressees and areas of responsibility. Institution, responsible for creation of ISRSC was Lithuanian University of Agriculture. In stage of preparation of project of ISRSC the main criteria of quality of this system was usefulness of ISRSC for studies, teaching, and consulting. In this paper it is presented the results of investigation of information needs of end-users, design of subsystems and structure of databases, technology of distributed data input and actualisation, problems of databases management and proposals for improvement of data quality and extension of this system