Nutrient Expert (NE)
Nepal
Nutrient Expert (NE) is an interactive, computer-based decision support system (DSS) which leads individual farmers, or farm advisors, through a step-by-step decision-making process that describes how best to apply nutrients to their rice fields. Prior to its introduction into Nepal, NE Rice has been successfully implemented in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, as well as in China. The tool has been proven effective in a variety of smallholder cropping systems. Nutrient Expert gives farmer's the confidence that they are using nutrients in the right way. The tool also provides farmers with a clear plan on how to best match the timing of their applications with the periods of peak nutrient demand, which is a critical step to ensuring fertilizers are used most effectively.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Agrifood Services
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Fertilizer and nutrients management, Farm advisory services
Value chains management
Delivery type (format)
Web based platform
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to consumers
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Multi-partners
Name of supplier/developer
IPNI (International Plant Nutrient Institution)
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company , SMEs / agripreneurs , Extension agents
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Nepal
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes