HGCA wins Crops best website
THE HOME Grown Cereals Authority‘s revised website has been voted by Crops magazine as the number one site for 2005.
The revised site www.hgca.com went live in July 2004 and has clearly built on the success of the old version by providing more free information to levy payers and subscribers in a clear, simple format.
What‘s new?
Market data centre – updated daily, useful filter capacity
E-conference format – view actual conference papers online (levy payers/ subscribers only)
More comprehensive cereals map
New look prospects – now published when required, rather than at set intervals
Non-food crops pages
Sow2succeed section added to the research pages
Improved cereal exports section, allows overseas businesses to see what the HGCA is doing. Users can access some reports and tools e.g. exporters directory
Policy area – covering CAP/WTO issuesMore to come in the New Year?
The new features add to the existing range of practical topic sheets, variety data (which many other sites link into), statistics, cereals and oilseeds market data and excellent e-mail bulletins for subscribers.
“There is a far stronger focus on targeting information – much of the information is restricted to levy payers and subscribers, which has proved popular,” said the HGCA‘s Marsha Ribeiro, responsible for the site.
The market data centre is an area that the HGCA is building on more and more, trying to service demand as required, she said.
“We are developing a new policy area covering CAP reform and WTO. We hope this will be going live by the beginning of next year.”
A full copy of website review can be found in Crops magazine (Jan 15), or alternatively visit the Webworld section of FWi for an interactive version of the guide.
If there‘s a site you would like added to this review, email Paul.Spackman@rbi.co.uk.