Pacific Soils Portal

What is the Pacific Soils Portal?

The Pacific Soils Portal (PSP) is a regional effort to collate and make available information, knowledge and advice relating to soils more readily available to a wide variety of soil and land users.

PSP development

14 October 2021

A regional effort to collate and make available information, knowledge and advice relating to soils

The Pacific Soils Portal, launched in 2020, has been developed by Manaaki Whenua in collaboration with CSIRO Agriculture and Food, the Secretariat of the Pacific Communities Land Resources Division, and Pacific Island Countries and Territories Agriculture Departments. It brings together soil data, dating back to the 1960s, for five Pacific countries – Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, and Tuvalu.
Learn more about the development of the PSP

Explore Detailed Information

Maps — explore where different soils exist and soil reports

Soil descriptions — learn about soils and the important role they play

Crop suitability — find out about matching soils and crops

Nutrient management — read about how to manage nutrients sustainably

Soil formation — find additional information online

Resources — browse useful manuals and handbooks

Pacific Soils Portal

Information and knowledge on Pacific soils, their health and uses

The Pacific Soils Portal brings together soil data, dating back to the 1960s, for five Pacific countries – Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, and Tuvalu.
PSP is a major milestone for agricultural extension officers, land users, and decision-makers, as users can access location-specific interpretive knowledge of soil properties, and find out whether a soil is suitable for a proposed agricultural use, all at the click of a button.

Coverage: Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu Date: 1938→ License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 New Zealand License (BY-NC-ND)