Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2013, 61(2), 473-479 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201361020473

Evaluation of electronic public services in agriculture in the Czech Republic

Hana Rysová1, Karel Kubata1, Jan Tyrychtr1, Miloą Ulman1, Martina ©mejkalová1, Václav Vostrovský2
1 Department of Information Technologies, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic
2 Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic

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 different regions in the Czech Republic was chosen. This research is based on the application of scientific analysis, synthesis and deduction. Descriptive statistics were calculated from the data obtained in the questionnaire survey. There were fifteen different 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 five factors (plant production, animal raising, hectares of land, number of employees, subsidies) were examined with regression analysis. Eleven statistically significant 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.

Keywords: eGovernment, agriculture, Czech Republic, electronic public services, evaluation of quality, eAGRI Portal
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Pieces of knowledge introduced in this paper resulted from solution of an institutional research intention. Internal grant agency of the Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, grant No. 20121047, Hodnocení eGovernmentu v oblasti zemědělství. The results of the evaluation of electronic public service in the agriculture in the Czech Republic will be available for Research Program titled "Economy of the Czech Agriculture Resources and Their Efficient Use within the Framework of the Multifunctional Agrifood Systems" of the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports number VZ MSM 6046070906.

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Rysová, H., Kubata, K., Tyrychtr, J., Ulman, M., ©mejkalová, M., & Vostrovský, V. (2013). Evaluation of electronic public services in agriculture in the Czech Republic. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 61(2), 473-479. doi: 10.11118/actaun201361020473
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