REAL TIME DIGITALIZED SOIL NUTRIENTMANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The DSNM system aggregates soil and climatic data as one pool from different coffee Agro-ecological zones in Uganda from recognized soil labs.. Our clients who are coffee farmers can remotely access

Apparently, the system is operating offline whereby our clients walk-in to request for a consultant which is expensive and time consuming for the smallholder. It is upon this that we are developing the online and digitalized system which involves developing the system, digitalizing the existing datasets and collecting more data from different agroecological zones.

For a long time, the means of assessing soil fertility have been rigorous. The traditional procedure involves picking soil samples from the field using augers and transporting them to the laboratory which is timely and expensive. In Uganda and especially in Coffee crops, there has been a lot of blind fertilizer application in the case of rate of application, Source of the fertilizer, and time of application.

Proposed Coffee Digital Soil Nutrient system (DSNM), will serve as a solution. The system will capture the spatial variability of soil fertility in the different coffee agro-ecological zones in Uganda for both Arabica and Robusta.
With this system , it will be easy for farmers to make quick preliminary decisions in matching coffee to the most fertile soils, solution

The unique value of the digital Soil Nutrient Map (DSNM) is vested in its quick accessibility as it shall be reached via the internet and hard copies depending on the state farmer in question. It will also encompass the option of farmer profiling to capture real time location. Its advantage of instant soil fertility diagnosis from the predetermined database makes it a better option compared to the traditional procedure of ferrying samples to the soil laboratory. It is cost-effective as instead of the farmer traveling to the lab, he/she can just log in upon a simple subscription fee, and access

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