1. AARINENA ICT Meeting 17 – 20 May, 2009 Cairo, Egypt Cyprus Country Report George Adamides Agricultural Research Institute

2. 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt2 Structure of the Agricultural Research System in Cyprus Agricultural Research Institute (ARI - http://www.ari.gov.cy ), 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

3. 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 2007-2013

4. 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt4 ARI – Research Stations Nicosia Ksylotympou Zygi Acheleia Poli Chrysochous Saittas

5. What have we done? Since 2007 http://www.ari.gov.cyhttp://www.ari.gov.cy General information Research dissemination News, Links, Calendar, Forum, Webmail Since 2008 http://library.ari.gov.cy/agris http://library.ari.gov.cy/agris Scanned published (local) papers since 1965 – present Full-text availability through WebAgris 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt5

6. What still needs to be done? Active involvement from management trough Use of NAIS Join CIARD 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt6

7. 28/02/2016AARINENA, Cairo, Egypt7