SIMFERM

Modern Resources and Activities Management Methods and Instruments for the farms and entrepreneurs in the rural environment - SIMFERM

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Objectives

The project meeting the objectives of programme 4 and the specific objectives of the research direction Including of the project in the objectives of program 4 and in the specific objectives of the research domain
The proposed project is addressing to the Research Domain 5 The agriculture, safety and food security - and it is included in the Research Thematic 5.1.5 The Management of the agro-alimentary production (the optimal dimensioning of the agriculture exploitations, integrated systems of ensuring the agro alimentary activities). The proposed project complies with the scope of Program 4 by creating collaboration between research-development-innovation entities and economical agents, collaboration meant to solve an important problem commonly identified: the one of sustaining the development and modernization based on the knowledge of agriculture farms in our territory and of the entrepreneurial rural area. Regarding the general objective of Program 4, the proposed project is complying to this, the created partnership in view of the project achievement being a plural-disciplinary one and capable of growing both the competitivety of the research-development activity in overview and each partner separately. Simultaneously, the created partnership will incarnate in the elaboration of some innovative methods, products and services addressed to the entrepreneurial medium in agriculture and will create concrete mechanisms of implementing these results in the same time. The SIMFERM project is answering to the central objective of Research Domain 5 by the fact that the revised results are steps in promoting a sustainable, modern and based on knowledge agriculture and performance technologies. We consider the project relevant within Program 4, contributing to the creation and consolidation of a balanced partnership and also to the coming at an end of such an important problem like the agriculture is.

The project goal

The main pursued objective purpose by the proposed project is to motivate the modernization and development based on knowledge of the business sector in the agriculture area, sector represented by the peasant farm, this way contributing to the building of a sustainable agriculture, crucial element in ensuring a durable rural development. The general objective of the project is the introduction of new agriculture management methods in the company (no matter the profile or the size) and the assisting step-by-step of the farmer in all the specific or related activities which are done in his farm. The support of these methods and knowledge's will be an integrated informational system meant to smartly manage the resources and activities of the farm and to interactively assist the farmer in all the steps of his activities. Apart of the project relevance within Program 4, the project meets the efforts made by the RADM (Ministry Agriculture and Rural Development) efforts of founding a performance showing and sustainable agriculture by sustaining the farms, firstly the semi-subsistence ones. Thus, the Plan for Rural Development in Romania between 2007-2013 states that ... it is necessary to continue speeding the reorganization and modernization of agriculture exploitations, taking into account their economical, ecological and social importance for the development of a durable and competitive agriculture, according to the ecoconditionality requirements. It is necessary the competitive improvement of the exploitations especially those of semi subsistence which trough investment in fixed capital and by introducing new and performance technologies that will lead to the transformation of a great number of this farms into viable agricultural exploitations. A particular accent is put on improving the management at all levels of agriculture activity but firstly at farm level. Rural development based mainly on farms that are modern, profitable and became actors on the market stage is unconceivable without knowledge support, without applying some adequate management methods and without the use of instruments put to use by the communication and information technology. The project we propose meets all the conditions to represent, through its results, a step forward, if not a breach, inside the rural development project based on knowledge .