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SATIVUM is the free digital tool chosen by the Spanish Government as the reference farmer’s digital book. It was designated as the reference tool in 2024, and it is being developed to have a wide range of functionalities. It allows farmers to register their plots, machinery, agricultural practices, create fertilization plans and follow crop development via satellite imagery. Although the tool it is only focusing on grain crops but also horticultural crops or fruit trees, aspects related to fertilization are most applicable for grain crops.
SATIVUM allows farmers to create fertilization plans based on different parameters such as crop needs, previous crops, potential yield, soil analysis, type of fertilizer, etc. Based on this information, SATIVUM makes a fertilization plan and suggestions on how to make fertilizer applications.
If farmers have variable rate technology, SATIVUM has the option of creating a variable rate map based on satellite imagery. SATIVUM analyses these satellite images and creates NDVI maps that can be used to generate task maps for variable rate fertilizer application (VRFA). SATIVUM allows to create up to 7 different fertilization zones. Farmers only need to decide what is the most suitable dose to be applied in each zone.