Angelique van Helvoort
Manager marketing and Communication, AgroCares
Manager marketing and Communication, AgroCares
Biography
Articles
On-the-spot, easy and affordable soil testing for Kenyan smallholder farmers
by Christy van Beek , Susanne Coolen , Berten de Leede and Angelique van Helvoort
Africa is facing an escalating soil fertility crisis and without immediate interventions, the continent continues to lose over €3,5 billion per year worth of nutrients. To increase productivity whilst decreasing soil fertility decline, balanced fertilisation is essential. Farmer cooperatives using soil scanners to provide real-time fertiliser 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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