This approach is known as Precision Agriculture. NviroCrop employs a highly qualified and experienced team of professionals, operating state-of-the-art software and equipment in order to offer the following services:
- Topographic(3D) and boundary mapping
- Soil chemical mapping (including inorganic nutrients, pH, density and organic carbon maps) in topsoil and sub-soil
- Soil physical mapping (including soil type, clay and stone fractions, maximum tillage depth, areas of high nitrogen leaching)
- Soil potential maps (including effective root depth, plant available water capacity, crop potential for different crops)
- Identification of zones of land likely to be loss-making and advice on how to minimise or avoid such losses
- Quantification of expected yield potentials for different soil zones for different crops
- Advice on corrective applications of plant nutrients for different zones (i.e. spatially variable application maps)
- Placement of representative sample points for yield estimation, soil moisture measurement, tissue sampling, etc
- NDVI scanning of green crops to identify zones of plant stress, and recommendations to rectify these
- Zone specific irrigation recommendations and integration of weather, soil and crop data
- Analysis of geo-referenced yield data in relation to all of the above.
By using information and advice a farmer can:
- Correct the balances in his soils to create the optimum conditions for crop growth and healthy soils;
- Identify likely loss-making zones on his farm and devise strategies to avoid or minimise these losses;
- Optimise production from high-potential zones on his farm (without wasting high levels of inputs on average potential zones);
- Avoid the over-application of crop inputs in certain areas;
- In the case of irrigated crops, optimise his water management;
- In short, the farmer can improve his efficiency, sustainability and profitability AND reduce or better manage his production risks and impact on the environment.