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
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.
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) |