In the span of 6 years, OCP Group has switched fertilizer consumption on the national level to full NPK, standing for nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the three nutrients that compose complete fertilizers.
Going from 52 Kiloton of NPK Fertilizer consumption in 2014 to 560 kilotons in the present day, the OCP has successfully “managed with the ecosystem to switch the consumption to full NPK customized at the national level.”
Fatiha Charradi, Vice president of Local Market and Farming Development at the OCP Group said during a Conference organized by Think Thank Food on May 12.
Her presentation covered OCP-AL Moutmir, a program providing farmers with cutting-edge technological solutions for free.
The initiative, which has optimized production and preserved natural resources is fully digitalized, on the business process and on the farmer side.
It benefits 400 000 farmers out of 1,5 million farmers present in Morocco.
“To support food systems in a sustainable way, we believe that Agriculture is a business and we should invest in pillars of this business,” Charradi said.
Such efforts include investment in the market information system to support agricultural dynamics on a realistic basis and to stimulate private investment opportunities, said Charradi.
AL Moutmir businesses platform @Atmar gives farmers tools to understand the state of health of the crop by analyzing the level of vegetation and comparing it to the standards and to the historical records observed in the same region.
It also provides land cover maps provided by satellite to help managers best understand the current landscape. “To see change over time, land cover maps for several different years are needed. With this information, managers can evaluate past management decisions as well as gain insight into the possible effects of their current decisions before they are implemented,” she said.
The platform also utilizes a system for digital soil mapping and makes use of soil profile information and covariate data to model the spatial distribution of soil properties across morocco.
“This soil mapping is an achievement done thanks to the all soil available data produced by OCP-Al Moutmir, the Fertimap project data, and other partners’ soil testing results data,”
OCP, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests, through Al Moutmir initiative seeks to introduce small farmers to adopt smart and good agricultural practices in the face of climate threats.
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