Dina Skejby

Head and board memeber: Leif Herløv, Danish Agricultural Advisory Centre
Deputy head and IT-Coordinator: Jens Peter Hansen, Danish Agricultural Advisory Centre

A node of the Dina network, Dina Skejby was established as a joint effort between Dina and the Danish Agricultural Advisory Center, to promote the use of informatics in Danish primary agriculture.

Objectives and strategies

Information and communication technology (ICT) is applied to an increasing number of systems in agriculture. The large spectrum of implementation calls for efficient co-ordination to ensure that computer programmes, information databases, decision support systems and process equipment can communicate and share information. The overall objective of Dina Skejby is to exploit and encourage the use of informatics in primary agriculture, agricultural extension service and agro-industries. Main areas include Information deliverance and Decision support systems.

Information deliverance

Starting with issues relevant to farmers and the extension service, Dina Skejby will contribute to exploit ICT in agriculture, based on experiences in Dina and in DAAC. Relevant issues are:

From information extended to knowledge created
ICT systems for connecting farmers, advisors, business partners and administrative authorities
Communication and data exchange between components in information systems and decision support systems
Further development of existing computer programmes, making use of new technologies.

Whenever possible, Dina Skejby will base its efforts on national and international standards and recommendations in order to benefit from the general development of IT and from collaboration with interested parties.

Decision support systems

As a result of Dina's research in this area, a number of models and early prototypes intended for use in agriculture have been developed. Dina Skejby will implement and test such models taking into account the possibilities and limitations in practical farming. Specific goals include:

To promote the transfer of models and prototypes from the agricultural sciences to practical farming
To implement on-line decision support systems for cattle, pig and crop production.

Author: webmaster Updated June 2001