Nutrient Expert® Chosen as Best Innovation for Improving Rural Livelihood in Bihar - IPNI.Net
Photo from our climate-smart village in Bihar, India. Photo: V. Reddy
CGIAR Climate's insight:
Nutrient Expert® tools for Maize and Wheat in South Asia, developed and validated over the last five years, provide location-specific fertilizer recommendation for individual farm fields. The tools were developed to provide critical input management support to nearly 90% of smallholder farmers of South Asia who do not have access to soil testing. The tools are now being used by the National Agricultural Research System in India for precision nutrient prescriptions within a range of farm type. As a Nutrient Smart practice, the Nutrient Expert® tool is one of the important flagship interventions for the Climate Smart Villages (CSVs) under the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in India to increase nutrient use efficiency and reduce environmental foot prints.