Search Results for: FOT
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FOT: Extension Workers Perspective in Uganda
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Optimization of Fertilizer Recommendations in Uganda. Monograph 4 of 4
Contents
- Planning and designing the FOT roll-out
- Community knowledge and extension workers FOT story for Uganda
- Key considerations while rolling out FOT in OFRA countries
- FOT enhancements
- Awareness and promotion
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Acknowledgement
- Links with additional information
Spreading the word on the FOT in Uganda
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7 December 2015 Christine Alokit from CABI Uganda has been working with the OFRA team to raise awareness of the Fertilizer Optimisation Tool. Christine writes: “We wanted to get messages out to farmers about the opportunities presented by the Fertilizer Optimization Tool (FOT). This is a different way of presenting fertilizer recommendations to resource-constrained smallholder farmers. It […]
FOT innovation for farmers in Uganda
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Full title: Fertilizer Optimization Tool an innovation for resource poor farmers in Uganda.
Monograph 1in the OFRA series.
Contents:
- Overview of the OFRA intervention
- Fertilizer optimization diagram
- The optimization process using the FOT
- OFRA Fertilizer Calibration Tool
- Integrating ISFM approaches
- Conclusions and recommendations
Institutionalization of FOT: Uganda – Monograph
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Full title: Institutionalization of FOT a key ingredient to sustainability: Lessons from Uganda. Monograph 2 in the OFRA series.
Contents
- Institutional arrangements for the sustainability of FOT
- Roll out of the FOT in Uganda
- A framework for development, validation, delivery and promotion of FOT for sustainability
- in Uganda
- Conclusions and recommendations
Farmers appreciate the benefits of FOT
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Full title: Farmers start to appreciate the benefits of using the FOT in guiding fertilizer application in Uganda
Monograph 3 in the OFRA monograph series
Contents:
- Why a Fertilizer Optimization Tool?
- Benefits of using a Fertilizer Optimization Tool
- The FOT rollout in Uganda
- What farmers say about the FOT and its benefits
- Conclusions and recommendations
Fertilizer Optimization Tools to increase farmers’ yields highlighted at CODATA 2019 Conference
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CABI has highlighted the benefits of digital agriculture, through the range of Fertilizer Optimization Tools, at the CODATA 2019 Conference in Beijing, China, including how the Fertilizer Optimizer app in Uganda increased some farmers yields seven-fold. Henry Mibei and Lucy Karanja from CABI’s Kenya office in Nairobi, told delegates that the agricultural sector is facing […]
Phone app set to transform how low-income farmers in Africa invest in fertilizer
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First appeared as a newstory on https://platform.cabi.org/news-and-media/2019/. An upgrade to a mobile phone app now offers farmers across Africa even more benefits and cutting-edge fertilizer use technology. This will help farmers to grow healthier, more productive with increasingly profitable crops, as a result of more informed use of how small amounts of fertilizer impact the […]
Fertilizer Optimization Tool pays dividends for farmers in Uganda
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CABI extension workers meet with farmers in Kidoko to advise on how to maximise the benefits of the Fertilizer Optimization Tool By Dr Monica Kansiime, Scientist Seed Systems, based at CABI in Nairobi, Kenya A decision support tool that allows an extension agent to take into account a number of the farmers’ circumstances and investment goals […]
Fertilizer Optimization Tool helps return son to teacher training school
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FOT pays off for Charles Wafula who is now able to help his son continue teacher training By Monica Kansiime, Scientist Seed Systems, based at CABI in Nairobi, Kenya In a previous blog post I outlined how the Fertilizer Optimization Tool (FOT) is paying dividends for farmers – helping them, in some cases, to report […]
Smarter fertilizer recommendations
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Harrison Rware explores how mobile phones are central to the next chapter of OFRA Between 2013 and 2017 CABI, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and 13 national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) formed a consortium that explored new ways of delivering smart fertilizer recommendations. The project was called Optimising Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA). The […]