AARINENA ICT Meeting 17 20 May, 2009 Cairo, Egypt Cyprus Country Report George Adamides Agricultural Research Institute 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt2 Structure of the Agricultural Research System in Cyprus Agricultural Research Institute (ARI -), is the only institution in Cyprus, engaged exclusively in agricultural research, covering the wider domain of crop and animal production The Institute is the national AGRIS Centre collecting, cataloguing and indexing the agricultural literature published in Cyprus, and is also the national CARIS Centre collating information on on-going research. All this information is supplied to FAO for inclusion in the global data bases of the AGRIS and CARIS systems 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt3 ICT Usage for Agriculture Ongoing research has shown that approximately 18% of the farmers have access to a computer, 15% have access to the internet and 82% have a mobile phone. The Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment is considering a plan to promote strategies and policies for the development of ICT in agriculture and in rural areas within the framework of the new Agricultural Development Plan for 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt4 ARI Research Stations Nicosia Ksylotympou Zygi Acheleia Poli Chrysochous Saittas What have we done? Since General information Research dissemination News, Links, Calendar, Forum, Webmail Since Scanned published (local) papers since 1965 present Full-text availability through WebAgris 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt5 What still needs to be done? Active involvement from management trough Use of NAIS Join CIARD 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt6 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt7