An upgrade to a mobile phone app now offers farmers across Africa even more benefits and cutting-edge fertilizer use technology

Concentric Ag Corporation, a developer of biological and plant nutrient inputs, has formed an alliance with AgroCares that will add real-time soil nutrient diagnostics to the services it currently provides to broadacre and specialty crop growers.

Yara has launched YaraIrix, a tool for precision farming that allows farmers to measure crop nitrogen requirements using their smartphones. The app was launched across Europe.

Brazilian company Agrivalle is launching the first microbiological fungicide and nematicide with a mixture of three organisms.

Veris Technologies has introduced the world’s first real-time sensor suite that measures four critical soil features while planting or tilling.

Valley Irrigation announces improvements to Valley GPS Guidance, providing growers with the latest advancements in competitive GPS corner technology.

Sony is taking its expertise in sensing and processing technology and applying it to the agriculture business with the introduction of its Smart Agriculture Solution. Sony’s new Smart Agriculture Solution allows for daily crop management and monitoring through the capture, collection and analyzation of data in the field.

OCP S.A., a phosphate soil and plant nutrition player, and Fertinagro Biotech S.L., a Spanish company that manufactures and supplies specialized plant nutrition solutions, have establishment a joint venture company for the production of granular high analysis NPK as well as fertilizers enhanced with urease inhibitors, biostimulants and trace elements (micronutrients), to address the international market.

Leili has acquired the first registration with EU REACH for the biostimulant Sargassum enzymatic hydrolysis on Feb. 21, 2019.

ICL Boulby in the UK is ramping up production of polyhalite – marketed as polysulphate – towards a target of reaching 1 million tonnes per year by the end of 2020. Production for 2019 is expected to reach 700,000 t.