Abstract:
This paper present an analisys of the on-line information resources
for organic agriculture in Romania, in connection with the portal Bio@gro.
This analysis was based on the experts opinions about organic agriculture
sector in Romania.
According to our survey, the target group included prevalent persons
with academic studies (87.8%), wich consider that the Internet can support
Organic Agriculture activities.
100% of the interviewees use the Internet, more than half (53.33%)
have Internet access at their workplace, over one third (36.67%) both at the
office and at home, and 18.75% use the Internet only at home.
The majority of the experts considers that the information provided by
the “traditional” sources is unsatisfactory (“traditional” sources referring to
organizations, meetings, press, radio, TV), as 58.62% considers it “Not
good”, and 13.79% “Unacceptably poor”.
Most interviewees prefer the on-line information services regarding
Organic Agriculture to be delivered via Internet, as 56.67% consider it
extremely important, 26.67% very important, and 16.67% important.
The digital library is considered extremely or very important in 90%
of the cases, the directories of Organic Agriculture-related links are
extremely or very important to 86.67%, news 98.93%, Organic Agricultural
events calendar 66.67%, and SMS/Mobile alerts 58.62%.
