On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers
Africa is facing an escalating soil fertility crisis and without immediate interventions, the continent continues to lose over 3,5 billion Euros per year worth of nutrients. To increase productivity whilst decreasing soil fertility decline, balanced fertilization is essential. Farmer cooperatives us...
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
2018
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| author | Beek, Christy van Coolen, Susanne Leede, Berten de Fiers, Teun Helvoort, Angelique van |
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| description | Africa is facing an escalating soil fertility crisis and without immediate interventions, the continent continues to lose over 3,5 billion Euros per year worth of nutrients. To increase productivity whilst decreasing soil fertility decline, balanced fertilization is essential. Farmer cooperatives using soil scanners to provide real-time fertilizer recommendations to farmers may be part of the solution. AgroCares and Agriterra present their findings from a soil sensor services pilot for farmer cooperatives in Kenya. |
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| spelling | CGSpace998162023-03-09T02:05:41Z On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers Beek, Christy van Coolen, Susanne Leede, Berten de Fiers, Teun Helvoort, Angelique van Africa is facing an escalating soil fertility crisis and without immediate interventions, the continent continues to lose over 3,5 billion Euros per year worth of nutrients. To increase productivity whilst decreasing soil fertility decline, balanced fertilization is essential. Farmer cooperatives using soil scanners to provide real-time fertilizer recommendations to farmers may be part of the solution. AgroCares and Agriterra present their findings from a soil sensor services pilot for farmer cooperatives in Kenya. 2018-12 2019-02-28T16:19:04Z 2019-02-28T16:19:04Z Magazine Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99816 en Open Access application/pdf Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Beek, Christy van; Coolen, Susanne; Leede, Berten de ; Fiers, Teun; Helvoort, Angelique van. 2018. On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers. ICT Update (89): 16. |
| spellingShingle | Beek, Christy van Coolen, Susanne Leede, Berten de Fiers, Teun Helvoort, Angelique van On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers |
| title | On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers |
| title_full | On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers |
| title_fullStr | On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers |
| title_full_unstemmed | On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers |
| title_short | On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers |
| title_sort | on the spot easy and affordable soil testing for kenyan smallholder farmers |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99816 |
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