Global Platform for Crop Nutrient Open Data

The Consortium for Precision Crop Nutrition (CPCN) and Agmatix launched a unique global platform designed to drive international research collaboration and expand open access to crop nutrient data to farmers, their advisers and policy makers.

The online platform, spearheaded by CPCN in collaboration with several leading research institutes, enables open access to essential crop nutrient concentrations data.

The open data project aims to accelerate improvement in the efficiency and sustainability of agronomic practices. The platform, which comprises two active databases, serves as a critical open data resource for agricultural researchers and professionals who conduct field trials on soil fertility and crop nutrition. Enabling these users to both contribute to and benefit from the datasets, the platform has already resulted in a published paper that estimates nutrient use and storage in maize.

Focused initially on nutritionally and industrially important crops, such as maize, wheat, rice and soybean, the Global Crop Nutrient Removal Database includes data on nutrient content, residues, crop yields and other associated data.

“Promoting open science is incredibly important to us. Only through collaboration can we progress the agricultural industry as fast as needed to meet the rising demand for food, which will always be at the core of what we do here at Agmatix,” comments Ron Baruchi, CEO of Agmatix.

The wide-scale provision of research data, enabled through both Global Crop Nutrient Databases, is set to advance scientific development of the sector, whilst also marking a positive step towards multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals, such as reducing hunger and poverty in a sustainable manner.