Program Area 1.
Nutrient Management Support System


Project:
Testing, Comparing and Adapting NuMaSS:
The Nutrient Management Support System

Principal Investigator(s):

  • Russell Yost - University of Hawaii
    (rsyost@hawaii.edu)

Project Strategy and Approach:

  • Prepare a protocol for testing, comparing, and adapting of nutrient management decision aids;

  • Enhance adoption of NuMaSS-based knowledge by users in different geographical regions of S.E. Asia-PhilRice, IRRI, Kasesart University, and West Africa-Senegal, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Cabo Verde, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau.

Annual Report: numass_2006-2007.pdf **new (4.613 Megabytes)



Project:
Adoption of the Nutrient Management Support System
Software Throughout Latin America

Principal Investigator(s):

  • T. Jot Smyth - North Carolina State University
    (jot_smyth@ncsu.edu)
  • Deanna L. Osmond - North Carolina State University
    (deanna_osmond@ncsu.edu)

The goal of this project is to support the adoption of the Nutrient Management Support System (NuMaSS) software’s knowledge on nitrogen, phosphorus and soil acidity management via a network of on-going programs throughout Latin America. Specific objectives are to:

  • test and compare NuMaSS predictions on nutrient diagnosis, recommendation and economic evaluation to those currently in use;
  • identify and refine software components that limit adoption of the NuMaSS knowledge base;
  • monitor the local adoption process and develop auxiliary tools, when needed, that improve the use of NuMaSS-knowledge within the regional user domains.

Activities in collaboration with national and international institutions are being conducted in Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama.


Annual Report: numass_adoption_2006-2007.pdf **new (133 Kilobytes)

 


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