Precision Nutrient Management topics including: Implementing the African Professional Certified Agronomy Advisory Program; Comparing Laboratory and Remote Sensing Methods for Soil Nutrients; Advancing Agricultural Sustainability through Collaborative Data Growth; and more inside!

Precision agriculture (PA) in Africa, though still emerging, holds great promise for transforming smallholder farming.

The emerging African Professional Certified Agronomy Advisory Program (PCAAP) is an APNI initiative aimed at providing farmers with access to high quality agronomy advisory services.

A farmer-led field study in western Uganda revealed varied rice yield gap reduction with nutrient application to major upland soil types and different responses to the impacts of climate variability due to moisture stress.

The Open Data Crop Nutrition Platform (https://cropnutrientdata.net), a collaboration between the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), Agmatix, and the Consortium for Precision Crop Nutrition (CPCN), continues to make strides in supporting agricultural sustainability.

Remote sensing shows significant potential for scaling the assessment, and mapping, soil fertility across African agricultural landscapes. Still, the path forward likely lies in an integrated approach that combines the power of remote sensing for broad-scale assessment and planning with targeted laboratory analysis.

There is need to rethink the process of conducting on-farm research to better foster knowledge transfer and innovation. Through a participatory on-farm experimentation (OFE) approach, this study was carried out to validate a package of soil moisture and fertilizer nitrogen management practices, and to track farmer adoption of better agronomic practices.