Business Intelligence (BI) can assist in agricultural enterprises to strengthen their production potential and technical effi ciency due to its eff ective support to the managerial, analytical, planning, and decision-making activities of managers and specialists. However, the state of the BI in the Czech Republic is not still completely understood. In this context, this paper aims at the evaluation of the current state of the art of the BI among small Czech farms. Th e focus of the re search was put on the evaluation of both the state of the BI, and the relevant business information systems and software for agriculture. Th ere was a survey among 135 agricultural entrepreneurs from various regions in the Czech Republic. Th e survey results are presented by the descriptive statistics and frequency tables. Th ere is an examination of the relationship between the agricultural enterprise structure and the use of the BI. Dependencies among the examined characteristics were sought by the means of the analysis of qualitative variables. With 95% probability, it could be claimed that the type of production, the size of farmed land, the number of employees and the level of fi nancial subsidies have no signifi cant impact on using the BI, the expert and analytical systems in agricultural enterprises.
The farms in the European Union do not reach their full production potential and the level of technical efficiency of agriculture is diverse. The difference between the states with the highest and lowest technical efficiency is up to 40% (Nowak et al. 2015). The Czech Republic ranks among the countries with a low technical efficiency, as shown in some studies (Pechrová and Vlašicová 2013;Čechura 2014;Giannakis and Bruggeman 2015;Nowak et al. 2015). There is, therefore, a strong need to improve the economic performance of agricultural enterprises in the Czech Republic. The availability of high quality information for the individual agricultural entities could greatly help to improve this situation. Highquality information is a key aspect of the information support of the agricultural sector. This issue is closely related to the information needs of the business. The information need can be regarded as a basic social need for information in the quality and quantity level necessary to solve certain tasks and problems. The Abstract: Th e supply of fast, accessible and high-quality information to individual users is the key aspect of information assurances of the agricultural sector. Th is aspect is closely related to the so-called information need. Th e paper aims to evaluate the current state of the information needs and information support and their impacts on small farms in the Czech Republic. Th ere is a strong necessity to improve the economic performance of farms in the Czech Republic. Moreover, the need for the introduction of new ICT in farming and farm management has rapidly increased at present. In farming, the ICT directly supports the operational agricultural activities and it can also serve as an interactive and fl exible tool for monitoring the progress of the farm economic performance. Th e analysis of the current state of the issue of information needs and dispositions among Czech farms was based on the questionnaire survey. We obtained 165 correctly fi lled answers from agricultural enterprises. Survey results are analysed with descriptive statistics, frequency tables, the clustering analysis and the correlation analysis. Th e results show that with 95% probability: (1) Th e level of the information needs is related to the current state of the ICT and the decision support system at the farm, (2) Th e infl uence of the information need level to the level of new technologies usage was not confi rmed, (3) Legislation issues represent a crucial part of the information needs of agricultural subjects, (4) Large enterprises with more than 500 ha have a much better level of the information support than the companies with fewer hectares, (5) Companies with less than three employees face problems with their information support, (6) Czech farms in average use advanced ICT and information systems, and (7) Th e farmer's decision-making is not strongly facilitated through the ICT. The current state of the issue of information needs and dispositions among small Czech farms
RYSOVÁ HANA, KUBATA KAREL, TYRYCHTR JAN, ULMAN MILOŠ, ŠMEJKALOVÁ MARTINA, VOSTROVSKÝ VÁCLAV: Evaluation of electronic public services in agriculture in the Czech Republic. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 2, pp. 473-479 The goals of the paper are to analyze the uptake and to evaluate the quality of electronic public services among Czech agricultural enterprises. A sample of 119 entrepreneurs in the agriculture from diff erent regions in the Czech Republic was chosen. This research is based on the application of scientifi c analysis, synthesis and deduction. Descriptive statistics were calculated from the data obtained in the questionnaire survey. There were fi een diff erent electronic services examined in the survey. Respondents made a plain ordinal-scaled evaluation of all used services in terms of the frequency of use, usefulness, importance and quality. Working hypotheses about dependencies among rates of use of particular services and fi ve factors (plant production, animal raising, hectares of land, number of employees, subsidies) were examined with regression analysis. Eleven statistically signifi cant dependencies were proved between the number of hectares and electronic services, which means that with growing number of hectares of land the rate of use of particular electronic services increases. Electronic services provided at eAGRI Portal run by Czech Ministry of Agriculture were utilized the most among agricultural enterprises (each by more than 50 %) and electronic mail (79 %). eAGRI Portal services were assessed the best in terms of importance, usefulness and quality. Farmers and agricultural businesses in the Czech Republic are currently not obliged by any law to use any electronic service, and they can still opt for traditional paper mail or personal visit. eGovernment, agriculture, Czech Republic, electronic public services, evaluation of quality, eAGRI Portal According to the study developed for the European Commission (Capgemini et al., 2010), there are eight major electronic public services that must be monitored and measured such as: social contribution for employees, corporate tax, valueadded tax, submission of data to the statistical offi ce, custom declaration, registration of a new company, public procurement, and environment-related permits.Czech authorities off er several more specifi c online services for entrepreneurs than the EC study settles such as: Information system of data boxes that is compulsory for public authorities and corporates do deliver offi cial electronic documents towards offi cial bodies, and Czech POINT which is a network of one-stop places to submit or retrieve output from diff erent public registries. In 2009, 44 % of respondents claimed that they used at least once the Czech POINT service, and 64 % used data box to receive a digital message from a public authority and only 28 % used the data box to send a message to an authority (CZSO, 2011a). There are also services such as electronic communicatio...
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