The relationship between the use of information technology and the development of agricultural manufacturing [electronic resource].

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The industrial activities play a pivotal role in our social life. Through what its accumulate to both; the value of work from the human being side, and to the value of ideal utilization from the side of elements of industrial process. Therefore; the socioeconomic development is the final form of interaction between those values. Accordingly; the information technology (IT) is being widely employed in all fields of agricultural industry, a growing body of informatics and mediated communication has been expanded in recent agricultural activities; whereas information technology increasingly provides realistic opportunities and strategic tools to the industrial organizations enabling them to manage their resources more efficiently. The aim of this stUdy is to examine the relationship between the use of information technology and the development of agricultural manufacturing. The study was carried out in Algharbya, EI-Behira and Alexandria governorates, with a total sample of 94 companies (representing 5 main industrial activities: agricultural machinery, fertilizers, pesticides, animal fodder and seeds treatment) selected randomly from the records of ministry of industry. The data was collected by personal interviews from the top managers. Data was statistically analyzed by using stepwise multiple regression. Results demonstrate that the technical analysis is explaining about 20% from the variance of agricultural manufacturing development and market analysis explains about 11% from the variance of dependent variable, and finally the industrial planning explains about 4% from the variance of the development agricultural manufactllring:lring. The results were conceptualized around applied linkage that connects three practical fields: the strategic planning of agricultural manufacturing, information technology and managerial systems. Accordingly; the development of agricultural manufacturing deliberated through: 1- restructuring the relation between the information flows and industrial objectives. 2- Inter organizational cooperation .3- flexible responses to industrial changes.4- the periodical evaluation to external settings.5realizing the equation of opportunties and threats. 6- the association between industrial priorities and social awareness, self interest and diversity.

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