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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Soil analysis for farmers - SoilCares
  • Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 14:56:37 -0400

Soil analysis for farmers - SoilCares
http://www.soilcares.com/en
Solutions for soil analysis and crop monitoring
Our practical tools use big data to let farmers do their own soil testing,
greenhouse scouting and weather data collecting.

The *SoilCares Scanner* is the first device in the world providing
affordable, real-time soil analyses and fertilizer recommendations.
Using near infrared spectroscopy, the scanner measures soil parameters and
sends lime and fertilizer recommendations,
customized for the farmer, to a smartphone via the SoilCares App.

Founded in Wageningen

SoilCares is born in 2013 in Wageningen, the Netherlands, as part of the
Dutch Sprouts family. Dutch Sprouts is a spin off of BLGG Laboratories,
which was sold to Eurofins in 2013. Expertised agronomists and researchers
work together in SoilCares to make agricultural knowledge accessible and
affordable to all farmers worldwide by bringing new technologies literally
into their hands.

Under BLGG, work began in Kenya and across the continent. There, where
agricultural knowledge is hard to reach and even harder to make use of,
SoilCares has introduced the first products to bring soil testing
technology to the farmers in the field. Since 2013, SoilCares Africa has
reached over 5000 farmers in Kenya with fertilizer recommendations based on
soil tests that were performed in a SoilCares’ Lab-in-a-box, which were
installed in Landrovers. We learned that just offering the service wasn’t
enough to reach the small holder farmers. In 2014 the SoilCares Foundation
was established to bring access to the right information and technology for
their farms in order to enable them to manage their soils effectively.

Since 2014 SoilCares’ products have improved: the Lab-in-a-box is now as
accurate as a traditional wet chemistry analytical laboratory and with the
SoilCares Scanner you can offer real-time and on the spot fertilizer and
lime recommendations that are given based on measurement of pH, N,P, K and
organic matter. The SoilCares scanner will be ready to use in Kenya in late
2016, while we continue to build our global soil database to support
farmers worldwide with our products.



  • [permaculture] Soil analysis for farmers - SoilCares, Lawrence London, 10/15/2016

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