Agricultural Knowledge Outreach

ICL is working with farmers to help them develop the knowledge needed to engage in sustainable agriculture, including plant nutrition and proper fertilization. This enables farmers to use their land and increase their yields more effectively, with less environmental impact. \

CocoaSoils: Integrated Soil Fertility Management

ICL is a partner in CocoaSoils, a long-term project in West Africa that is defining ideal fertilization needs for cocoa production and helping farmers increase their yields on existing farmlands.

Cocoa plantations in West Africa are not as productive as expected, yielding low income for farmers. To compensate for this lack of productivity and improve their livelihoods, many farmers expand their farms into forests. One of the critical factors contributing to a decline in cocoa productivity is poor soil fertility. In addition, there is a knowledge gap regarding crop nutrition and proper management of cocoa trees.

The CocoaSoils program aims to deploy an Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) approach that embraces an integrated systematic approach to cocoa intensification by using improved planting materials, canopy cover management and pest/disease control together with targeted fertilizer application to enhance sustainability and avoid deforestation. This is complemented by (re)-use of locally available (organic) nutrient sources and appropriate intercropping.

You are welcome to read more in a summary of the Annual CocoaSoils Forum-Ghana

2.3

By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land. Other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farmer employment

15.2

By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally

ICL’s agronomists in the field - creating a community of knowledge

ICL is working with farmers, dealers, retailers, advisors and agricultural associations to provide knowledge and best practices. We are working with growers worldwide – from Asia to Europe on crops ranging from potatoes to barley.

ICLeaf - personal prescription for maximizing yield

ICL launched ICLeaf earlier this year, a revolutionary diagnostics tool, which will provide farmers with a personal prescription for maximizing yields. The tool measures 10 different elements in a leaf sample and then delivers accurate, real-time feedback and a recommendation regarding nutrient use.

The process begins with the collection of leaves from the targeted crop, which are then analyzed using unique technology. Results are rapidly available – within up to three days after initial sampling – versus several weeks using traditional methods, all with a more sustainable tool than traditional testing. It will allow farmers to make quick and data-driven decisions, based on the measurements, and enable them to take multiple samples each year and make immediate, in-season improvements. The revolutionary diagnostics tool was created at the CFPN.

The digital technology was developed by Agmatix, an ICL owned digital ag startup, which developed the world’s first single engine designed to drive the agronomic innovation cycle from research and experimental data into meaningful and actionable insights.

2.a

Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agriculture research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular, least developed countries.

2.1

By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.

12.2

By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

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