Fertilizer prices are skyrocketing, placing them beyond the reach of poor farmers. Agricultural success depends on balanced fertilizer use. Farmers only use nitrogen and phosphate in a 4-to-1 ratio, causing diminishing yields and disease spread. Narrow NPK ratios improve plant immunity. Phosphate fertilizer use declined last year. Therefore, it is vital to find a way to calculate NPK using sources within our farmers' budgets for balanced use. Noticing the dilemma, the honorable secretary agriculture ordered the SFRI to submit a remedy in the form of an application suitable to soil scientists, extension workers, fertilizer dealers, and ordinary farmers. This institute has developed a fast app in a short time. The agricultural secretary praised the SFRI team's work on this application. This application will be used in 36 soil and water testing labs in Punjab to formulate site-specific recommendations based on soil analysis beginning today. Instructions have been given to each lab's head. The previous practice of recommending fertilizer on the basis of low, medium, and high soil fertility is now prohibited.
Benefits
- User can quickly generate any balanced N, P, K fertilizer recipe within his budget
- User can quickly choose different fertilizer recipe
- The application provides pre-define fertilizer combination to choose from, but also allow his user to make his own fertilizer combination and get doses in accordance to his selected combination
- The application allows users to readjust fertilizer prices as market prices change. App calculates based on saved fertilizer prices. The user can modify prices at any moment
- If user has enough money, App will go for micro nutrients in addition to macro nutrient recommendations
- One is able to get information about the time and method of fertilizer application to his selected/target crop
- One can find the address and phone number of the district's soil and water testing laboratory by its geographical location
- Then go to his desired target lab or view the lab on a Google map
- One can learn how to get testing facilities for soil, water, plant, and fertilizer samples and the associated charges
- One can know the exact site-specific fertilizer recommendations for wheat, cotton, maize, rice, and sugarcane by entering values of soil analysis report
- One can assess whether the fertility of their soil is problematic, normal, poor, or adequate
- Moreover, users without soil report can acquire fertilizer recommendations for wheat, cotton, maize, rice, and sugarcane
