Informatisation of plant protection - challenge or a necessity?
2001
Knapic, V. | Markelj, M. | Lozej, M. (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, Ljubljana (Slovenia)) | Macek, J. (Slovenian Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting and Fisheries Inspectorate, Ljubljana (Slovenia)) | Lozej, M. (Agricultural Inst. of Slovenia, Ljubljana (Slovenia))
In order to master ever increasing amounts of information, those responsible for providing plant protection have been constructing data bases piecemeal on a national level since 1994, so that they now operate at least four information systems that have been created at different periods and using varied technology. At the Ministry, records, registers and databases are kept using commercial software that is not linked into a system. The phytosanitary inspectorate uses an internal CK-program. Authorised institutions are elaborating a distribution map of harmful organisms, which introduces the GIS recording-plot method into the plant protection domain. The monitoring and forecasting service has been using the specialised program, AgroExpert, and has networked it into the agro-meteorological system, while several website pages provide support to the wider public when accessed at the address http://www.bf.uni-lj.si/ag/fito/. Disregarding the agro-meteorological system and website pages, the maintenance and management of data bases and systems are expensive and less effective due to their partial nature, because several unrelated data bases are created, causing overlapping of data and processing, and lack of uniformity of the data. In order to avoid these weaknesses and to meet the demand for speedy exchange of information among various plant protections services in other countries and the EU Commission, a unified and integrated information system for the plant protection domain is planned within the national program of the Republic of Slovenia for the adoption of the acquis communautaire, which links in terms of content the areas of plant protection, plant seeds and plants for planting (PHYTO system), plant protection products, and the registration of plant varieties.
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