Soil Sensors Using AI Can Help Reduce Fertilizer Use on Farms
nitrogen-based fertilizers.The findings have been published in the journal Nature Food.Lead researcher Dr. Max Grell, who helped develop the technology at Imperial College London’s Department of Bioengineering, said: “It’s difficult to overstate the problem of overfertilization both environmentally and economically.
Yields and resulting income are down year by year, and growers don’t currently have the tools they need to combat this. ADVERTISEMENT “Our technology could help to tackle this problem by empowering growers to know how much ammonia and nitrate are currently in soil and to predict how much there will be in the future based on weather conditions.
This could let them fine-tune fertilization to the specific needs of the soil and crops.”Excess nitrogen fertilizer dramatically contributes to the environmental crisis.
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