Paris, 18 June 2007


EFITA newsletter / 315 / European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment


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ICT in French agriculture – the tables that I will present and discuss at EFITA 2007 – Who did say that farmers do not adopt ICT?

2003

2005

Evolution

Number of professional farms

367 176

346 525

- 5,62 %

Farmers using the Internet for professional uses

70 500

105 500

+ 50 %
Table 1 – Comparison of numbers of French farmers using the Internet in 2003 and 2005(source of tables 1 to 4: French ministry of Agriculture and pleinchamp.com)

 

Nb of dep. in 2003

Nb of dep. in 2005

< 500

30

17

500 - 1000

44

26

1000 - 1500

14

32

1500 - 2000

4

10

> 2000

2

9
Table 2 – Comparison of numbers of farmers using the Internet per department (I.e. county) in 2003 and 2005

 

Nb of dep. in 2003

Nb of dep. in 2005

< 20%

52

6

20 – 25 %

23

23

25-30

8

20

30 - 35

10

17

> 35 %

1

28
Table 3 – Comparison of percentages of farmers using the Internet per department (i.e. county) in 2003 and 2005

 

2003

2005

Large crops

25

38

Vineyards

24

35

Fruits

23

33

Milk production

14

25

Meat Production

21

26

Mixed crops + cattle

20

33
Table 4 – Comparison of percentages of farmers using the Internet per main productions in 2003 and 2005

Personal / family uses

91 %

Cattle identification / management

33 %

Weather info

52 %

Relationships with co-operatives and retailers

31 %

Agricultural news

52 %

Sales of farm products

14 %

Markets

43 %

Buying farm inputs

13 %

Accounting / bank

35 %

Buying equipments

3 %

Advices and decision support

35 %

No answer and others

3 %
Table 5 – Main Internet services used by French farmers (source: BVA & Agrodistribution) – See table 8 for a more detailed analysis

% of farmers using e-mailing to contact...

 

Family

85 %

Providers

48 %

Technicians

40 %

Other farmers

39 %

Farmers members of your local group

21 %

Clients

26 %
Table 6 – The use of e-mailing by farmers (source: NTIC-AGRI)

% of farmers

 

Subscribing at least one newsletter

70

Using forums

23

Having their own web sites

10
Table 7 – Use of newsletters, forums and personal web sites by farmers (source: NTIC-AGRI)

% of farmers looking at…

Every day

1 to 3 times per week

Once a week

Once a month

Some-times

Mean
nb of connexions per month

Weather info

35

37

12

2

14

12,4

Online bank

28

35

26

5

6

11,2

Ag. News

21

31

27

5

16

9,2

Cattle data

18

34

23

5

21

8,8

Search engine (ag. info)

20

25

15

9

31

8,1

Market info

18

25

22

6

28

7,9

Co-ops / retailers data

8

18

25

11

37

5,2

Advertisements

11

15

19

10

45

5,1

Looking for tech. info

7

18

23

13

38

4,8

Info on providers

6

13

12

10

53

4,1

Satellite images (Farmstar)

6

13

12

10

59

3,7

Administration

6

6

11

16

62

2,8

Personal online purchase

2

4

9

21

64

1,8

Prof. online purchase

2

3

3

13

79

1,4
Table 8 – Frequencies of searches by farmers on the Internet (source: NTIC-AGRI)

Weather info

Market info

Administration

Ag. info

Météo France

31

Terre-net

26

CAP

54

Terre-net

29

Pleinchamp

19

Agritel

13

Taxes

16

Web-agri

16

Terre-net

19

Pleinchamp

13

Salary

14

Pleinchamp

12

Météoconsult

5

France agricole

9

Other

4

France agricole

11

Ag. Chamber

4

Web-agri

8

 

 

Ag. Chamber

5
Table 9 – The most popular web sites (source: NTIC-AGRI)

 

Nb of farms

Professional farms (> 20 K€)

320 000

Professional farms (>78 K€)

250 000

Farms with a PC

190 000

Farms connected to the web

120 000

Farmers using their PC for professional uses

100 000
Table 10 – French Agricultural ICT market as seen by ISAGRI (source: ISAGRI)

% of farmers having…

2006

2007

Slow Internet access

39

16

Fast Internet access

52

82
Table 11 – Percentage of Internet connection of farmers using the Internet for professional uses (source: ISAGRI)


Summer University on Information Technology in Agriculture and Rural Development
29 - 30 August 2007 – DEBRECEN - Hungary
University of Debrecen, Centre for Agricultural Science, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development and Hungarian Association of Agricultural Informatics (HAAI) with other partners are organizing the Summer University on European level.
The purpose of the conference is to give a forum to exchange information on education, research, applications and developments of Information Technologies in Agriculture and Rural Development and publish the most recent results. This forum is recommended for PhD students and of course everybody welcome! (submission deadline 20 July 2007).
See: http://odin.agr.unideb.hu/su2007/
Contact: Miklos HERDON
E-mail: herdon(a)agr.unideb.hu


Letters to the editor

It really annoys me to see these suicide bombers blowing up people as well as themselves. In my day, suicide was done in a more dignified way, such as slicing your wrists in the bath, or hanging yourself from a door with a belt.

Paul Mulraney, Belfast

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My friend's mum recently pointed out that I have the same ironing board cover as her. Can anyone think of a more mundane and pointless remark to make than this?

Alun Daniel

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I'll never understand my neighbour. He has recently started wheel-clamping his own caravan when he finds he has inadvertently parked it in his own drive! I wonder if he is a sadist, a masochist or both.

Alan Thakray

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Did anyone else feel that Mel Gibson's remake of the classic Life of Brian wasn't anywhere near as funny as the original?

Anon

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On the BBC website, I read with interest that some scientists in Australia have discovered the smallest fish known to exist. They've obviously never been to the Britannia Chippy on the Gloucester Road.

Alan J., London

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Hats off to the American police. They arrive at Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch to arrest him a mere six months after he admits climbing into bed with young boys on worldwide TV. Perhaps they should get some faster cars.

T Barnham, London

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HOW come rap artist Dr. Dre can use the 'N' word on his multi-million selling albums and win a MOBO award, yet when I used it at my son's football match I was asked to leave the park? Once again, it's one law for the rich and another for the poor.

Reg Ashcroft, Bradford

Contact: Ian HOUSEMAN
E-mail: ian.houseman(a)btconnect.com


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