|
|
The Southeast Asia Program of IPNI
Agricultural production in Southeast Asia will further intensify and diversify to keep up with the rising demand of a growing population that is predicted to increase by 140 million in the next 20 years. The necessity for intensification offers substantial opportunities for farmers to introduce profitable, sustainable and environmentally sound strategies that are tailored to site-specific conditions as the need for purchased inputs increase.
The Southeast Asia Program of IPNI is well positioned in the region through joint collaborative projects on the development and dissemination of novel site-specific nutrient management approaches in rice, maize, and oil palm in lowland and upland areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Projects that cut across crops include work on soil-related constraints to increasing productivity. | |
It is our vision that farmers achieve increased profitability, food security, and environmental sustainability through the appropriate use of fertilizer nutrients considering interactions with other management practices. It is our objective to realize public-private partnerships in the promotion of improved, benefit enhancing nutrient and crop management practices through research and extension. |
| News - Latest issue of SEAP Quarterly Newsletter |
 |
| View the latest information on recent activities of our program and selected news on regional developments. |
| Upcoming oil palm events |
| 4th Palm Oil Summit
9 – 10 July 2012
Bali, Indonesia
Theme: Sustainable Yields and Downstream Processing
Learn more |
| Palm Oil Africa
5 – 6 Sept 2012
Accra, Africa
Theme: Reviving the Palm Oil Industry in Africa - Challenges & Opportunities
Learn more |
| Maize - Developing Quick Guides for fertilizing maize in larger domains |
| A Quick Guide (QG) is a one-page summary of plant nutrition and crop management guidelines for larger areas (i.e. district, municipality). Quick Guides are designed to provide farmers with location-specific guidelines based on the principles of site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) by capturing the most important factors that affect fertilizer recommendations in a given region.
Learn more |
| Software and Tools - Nutrient Expert for Hybrid Maize |
| Many countries in Asia have started replacing existing blanket fertilizer recommendations for vast areas with rice, maize, or wheat with more site-specific guidelines adapted to local needs. A key challenge faced by the local extension agencies remains the complex nature of factors influencing nutrient requirements.
The Nutrient Expert for Hybrid Maize is a new, computer-based decision support tool developed to assist local experts to quickly formulate fertilizer guidelines for tropical hybrid maize based on the principles of site-specific nutrient management (SSNM). This software allows scientists and extension experts to jointly develop novel nutrient management strategies for evaluation.
Learn more |
Maize - Site Specific Nutrient Management for Favorable Tropical Environments |
| More than 120 on-farm experiments with hybrid maize were conducted during 2004-2008 at 19 key production sites in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam to develop and evaluate a new site-specific nutrient management approach for Asia.
The SSNM concept has been simplified and is now ready for wider-scale, participatory evaluation in partnership with farmers.
Learn more |
Publications - IPNI Pocket Guides on Oil Palm Now Available in Bahasa Indonesia |
| The first edition of the IPNI pocket guide series on Nursery, Immature, and Mature published 10 years ago in English language quickly became popular among planters as a generic, high quality, and widely applicable reference to best management practices in oil palm. The guides have been high in demand ever since with more than 4,500 copies sold and distributed to date. It is much overdue that we offer the pocket guide series in Bahasa Indonesia to make this ‘ready reference’ more widely available to field personnel.
Learn more |
Software and Tools - Nutrient Manager for Rice |
| Nutrient Manager for Rice is a new, user-friendly web-based decision support tool enabling extension agents to quickly formulate fertilizer guidelines for specific fields or rice-growing areas. This tool only requires information that can be easily provided by a farmer or a local expert. After answering a few key questions, a farmer can get a fertilizer guideline tailored to his rice variety and growing conditions. The guidelines generated by this tool are consistent with the scientific principles of Site-Specific Nutrient Management (SSNM) for rice developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and will help a farmer increase his yield and profit by applying the right amount of fertilizer at the right time.
Learn more |
|
|
| Publications |
Concepts and Technical Information |
News |
 Books and Publications
Books and Publications Order Form
SEAP articles in Better Crops
Software and Tools
|
Soil Fertility
Fertilizers
Economics
Statistics
|
SEAP Quarterly Newsletter Archive
SEAP Newsletters 2007-2008 Archive
|
Google SSNM on Google Books
Use Google Books (http://books.google.com) to search for full-text versions of publications on SSNM.
Learn more
Field-specific potassium and phosphorus balances and fertilizer requirements for irrigated rice-based cropping systems
This article published recently in the Plant and Soil Journal, discusses how fertilizer K and P requirements for rice can be determined with site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) using estimated target yield, nutrient balances, and yield gains from added nutrient.
Read Full Story
Estimating maize nutrient uptake requirements
A collaborative paper by scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the IPNI Southeast Asia Program, and the International Rice Research Institute published in Field Crops Research discusses the development of a generic QUEFTS model and a simpler, spherical model on grain yield-nutrient uptake relations in maize across a wide range of maize environments and grain yield levels.
Read Full Story
|
Fertilizers - Organic vs Inorganic
Do organic amendments improve yield trends and profitability in intensive rice systems? Some conclusions emerged after analyzing yield trends of 25 long-term experiments (LTE) with rice-rice (R-R) and rice-wheat (R-W) systems across a wide geographical range in Asia.
Learn more
Farm Economics - Simulation Analysis
There is an apparent lack of user-friendly tools to rapidly assess economic risks in Asia's smallholder farming environments. Public and private sector extension agents require up-to-date information on the impact of commodity prices (fertilizers, produce), seasonal variation in climate, or new technologies (e.g. nutrient management strategies) - to name a few - on farmers’ input requirements and net benefit. .
Read Full Story
Farm Economics - Evaluation of SSNM
Many Countries in Asia have started replacing existing blanket fertilizer recommendations for vast areas with rice, maize, or wheat with more site-specific guidelines adapted to local needs . This process was accompanied with a shift from traditional on-station research to on-farm development and evaluation of novel practices.
Read Full Story
Economics - Fertilizer Use & Profit
As fertilizer prices increase, farmers and policy makers might consider reductions in fertilizer use. But, crop yield is directly related to amount of nutrient taken up by a crop. At some point, less fertilizer use means lower crop yield and less profit for farmers. How much fertilizer use is just right for high profit?
Learn more
|
News - Watch SSNM videos on YouTube
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has released a set of eight videos, four in English and four in Tagalog featuring Ryza the talking rice plant on a play list on YouTube. The videos discuss, in general, proper nutrition for making healthy rice plants.
Learn more
|
|
