22. November 2025

we have successfully started a tradition of creator-user conference of the system for Úksúp

The first annual meeting of creators and users of the CÚR system: a unified platform, common goals
At the beginning of November, we started a tradition of meetings with another long-term YMS client, the Central Agricultural Control and Testing Institute (ÚKSÚP), at the Galicia Nueva Castle Hotel in Halič.
For the Slovak Civil Service Commission, we supply the CÚR information system, one of the most complex digital platforms in public administration today. “The CÚR IS connects dozens of professional areas, makes work easier and brings order to where the world of data has been fragmented for many years,” said Juraj Halmo, YMS sales director, at the beginning.
We shared experiences, unified views on the use of the system, and presented the technological direction. “The goal was not just to present or solve technical details. We came together to understand each other even better — as colleagues who work with the same system daily and develop it together,” adds Juraj Halmo at the beginning.
ÚKSÚP and its vision of a unified digital environment
The introduction by Marek Molnár, Director of the Department of Informatics at the Institute of Soil Science and Technology, was factual, humorous, and humane. He introduced the Institute not through lists of services, but through the work of people, and showed the incredibly broad and important scope of the institute: from soil protection, through the fight against quarantine pests, seeds, fertilizers, viticulture, organic farming, to food chain control and soil safety.
Marek Molnár emphasized: “We perceive the CÚR as a tool that allows us to operate in a unified manner. Only if all departments understand the system in the same way can we fully utilize its potential for the entire institute.”
A clear overview followed: 122 electronic services, more than 12,600 users, more than 40,000 submissions per year, thousands of inspections, hundreds of thousands of processed soil samples, registered varieties, vineyards, organic farms, feed companies, traders, fertilizers… In terms of the scope of electronic services provided, the ÚKSÚP is among the most computerized institutions in Slovakia.
Marek Molnár’s perspective showed that the IS CÚR is the joint work of dozens of experts, controllers, scientists, laboratory workers, inspectors, winegrowers, agronomists and data specialists. Therefore, it is important that all departments use the system in the same way and see it “with the same eyes”.
IS CÚR integrates a wide range of services – from register management, through electronic services to innovations such as the use of artificial intelligence and robotics in the agricultural sector. The goal is transparency, efficiency and quality of data essential for soil and plant protection.
Supplier’s view: CÚR as a modular system for one institute
The second main presentation was led by Marek Ivaňák, YMS project manager, responsible for the implementation of the solution. While Marek Molnár spoke about the purpose of IS CÚR, Marek Ivaňák showed the mechanism – how CÚR works behind the scenes in IT.
He presented the modular structure of the system, the government cloud, the technical architecture and specialized modules: the control module, laboratory requests, the fertilizer register, the variety register, the vineyard register, organic farms, records of POR consumption and others, or links to state registers. He emphasized that the system is a holistic organism. Marek Ivaňák says, “Real numbers – data transfers via the CSRÚ (CPDI), the use of map services, control statistics, automated requests to laboratories – confirm that the system is the result of long-term efforts and detailed thinking and has become an irreplaceable everyday assistant.”
Award for participants
The YMS team is based on a cohesive team and has found similar people in cooperation with the experts of the ÚKSÚP. With humor typical of the professional and human approach of YMS to work, we awarded awards “for courage”, “for patience” and a special award “for failure”. Marek Ivaňák says: “At YMS, we are not afraid of difficult challenges or large projects. We can rely on skilled and highly professional people who can solve even complex tasks. We are glad that we can also find such people at ÚKSÚP. Our thanks go to all members of the ÚKSÚP project team who willingly answered analysts’ questions, patiently tested, configured, and helped colleagues with the beginnings of their work. They thus contributed to the creation of a valuable work. Many of them deserve the award, but we had to choose. We chose three users whose work significantly helped us bring IS CÚR to its current form.”
In addition to the three awards, we added a special thank you to the person to whom the ÚKSÚP owes the current form of the IS CÚR system. Jozef Izakovič, who worked for several years as the head of the IT department for the ÚKSÚP, is the conceptual author of the entire solution and has worked patiently, persistently and with great commitment for years to make the system a reality. He attended the meeting for the last time in a working role, because after 46 years of working life he is retiring into a well-deserved retirement.
Drones in the service of agriculture: new potential for the Czech Agricultural Research Service
This was followed by a live demonstration of drone work at Uavonic’s Galicia Nueva site. The demonstration showed how modern drone technologies can expand the control and monitoring capabilities of agricultural entities.
Drones can now monitor the health of stands, accurately measure areas, identify pests, and analyze variations in stands using multispectral sensors. This represents great potential for the ÚKSÚP — from effective inspection planning to quickly identifying situations in the field that would otherwise require the physical presence of experts.
In the future, technology can supplement data in the CÚR with new types of information, such as the state of vegetation or deviations in land that require the attention of inspectors. The connection of drone monitoring with the information system thus opens the door to even more modern management of agricultural supervision.
CÚR as a joint project of the entire institute
The success of the CÚR is based on the cooperation of users and creators of the system, on a unified understanding of processes and on the willingness to move the system forward together. Marek Ivaňák says: “CÚR is a living system. We grow with it together — we as creators and you as users. Only together can we make it a unified and modern tool for the entire institute.” The meeting laid the foundation for a tradition of regular dialogue, which is key to the success of such an extensive digital infrastructure as the IS CÚR.