ISNN 2083-1587; e-ISNN 2449-5999 2016,Vol. 20,No.3 , pp.27-34 Agricultural Engineering DOI: 10.1515/agriceng-2016-0041 www.wir.ptir.org THE USE OF IT TECHNOLOGIES IN FARMS ON THE EXAMPLE OF ZAMBRÓW AND WYSOKIE MAZOWIECKIE COUNTY Andrzej Borusiewicza, Krzysztof Kapelab*, Marek Gugałab a Faculty of Computer Studies, The Academy of Agrobusiness in Łomza b Department of Agronomy, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities ∗ Corresponding author: e-mail:
[email protected] ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history: The paper presents the analysis of use of IT technologies by farmers. Received: February 2016 Data from a research survey carried out in 100 randomly selected Received in the revised form: farms in 2015 constituted research material. The research area covered March 2016 farms located in Podlaskie Voivodeship on the area of two counties Accepted: April 2016 i.e. Wysokie Mazowieckie (50 questionnaires) and Zambrów County Key words: (50 questionnaires). The questionnaire is a research instrument. The agricultural farm, research was to determine the level of use of specialist computer Internet, computer, programs by farmers and their needs concerning acquisition of infor- computer program, mation on innovations in agriculture. Due to the obtained results one agriculture may find out that a low number of farmers uses specialist computer programs in their farms. In Wysokie Mazowieckie County it is only 8% of respondents and in Zambrów County 14%. The main source of information on innovations in agriculture is the Internet, professional agricultural press and television. Introduction In the recent years merging of two various fields such as IT and communication tech- nology (ICT) and agriculture has become a fact.