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Ethiopia finalizes national soil fertility mapping survey

The Ethiopian Soil Information System has said that only eight months remains to finalize the country’s soil fertility mapping with 490 districts having so far been covered in the survey.

The soil fertility survey has covered Tigray, Amhara and Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s states, according to Professor Tekalign Mamo, Team Leader of Agricultural Commercialization Clusters and Ethiopian Soil Information System at the Agricultural Transformation Agency.

The soil fertility survey will help to identify soil fertility status, propose the required type of fertilizers to boost crop production and productivity in the country, Professor Tekalign said.

He dubbed the move transformational as it also included over 40,000 new fertilizer validation demonstrations attended by 4.5 million farmers in the five fertilizer blending plants across the nation.

The Ethiopian Soil Information System is the first of its kind of such national initiatives in Africa.

The project was launched in 2012 to analyze the specific nutrients of soils in different locations in the country.

APA

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