Information Literacy of Farmers

The project Agricultural Libraries – AgroLib and the Opportunity bank organized a seminar for farmers “Agriculture and new information technologies”.

Farmers from the Pomoravski district were trained in computer and the Internet use for advertising and sale of agricultural products. The farmers created their email accounts that can be used for their agricultural business, learned how to connect on social networks and registered their farms on the online marketplace Agrolib: www.onlinepijaca.agrolib.rs/en/

Farmers were satisfied with having a chance to attend this useful seminar and getting a booklet with instructions that can be used for practice and revision of what they learned. They sad that they are aware of the power of Internet and information technologies and that using the Internet in an effective way can help them in the future.

Information Literacy of Farmers

The project Agricultural Libraries – AgroLib and the Opportunity bank organized a seminar for farmers “Agriculture and new information technologies”.

Farmers from the Pomoravski district were trained in computer and the Internet use for advertising and sale of agricultural products. The farmers created their email accounts that can be used for their agricultural business, learned how to connect on social networks and registered their farms on the online marketplace Agrolib: www.onlinepijaca.agrolib.rs/en/

Farmers were satisfied with having a chance to attend this useful seminar and getting a booklet with instructions that can be used for practice and revision of what they learned. They sad that they are aware of the power of Internet and information technologies and that using the Internet in an effective way can help them in the future.

Lecture on Fruit and Grape Pruning

Within the project “Agricultural Libraries“, the Jagodina Public Library hosted a lecture Fruit and Grape Pruning on Saturday, 27 February 2016.

The lecturer was Igor Andrejić, graduate engineer in fruit science and viticulture. He is the associate of the Agricultural Advisory Service of Serbia (the  regional center in Jagodina)

Mr. Andrejić talked about the choice of adequate pruning tools, best time period for doing it and its aims. Also, he talked about the shape and formation of the grapevine, and proper pruning.

The lecture pointed out the mistakes that are usually made during pruning and showed tools used for pruning.

The advisers of the Agricultural Advisory Service of Serbia – Milanka Miladinović and Miodrag Simić informed the present farmers about free land fertility control in the territory of the Pomoravski district, and importance of agrochemical analysis in general. The adviser Ljiljana Jeremić talked about incentives in agriculture.