Vitalytics · VAN’s tools

Tools that work out fertiliser quantities, crop water needs and other figures for your own field

VAN has 3 finished tools and 5 pilot tools. The pilot tools work, but they do not yet cover every crop. You do not need to sign in to any of them or install anything. Enter your crop, your acres, your sowing date or your soil test reading, and each tool works out a result for your own field.

2 more tools are being built. To see them, turn on the switch “Include the 2 still being built” below.

Showing 8 of 10 tools. Some tools are listed under more than 1 topic.

Finished
Crop plan calculatorFinished

Choose your crop, tick the stages and enter your acres to see the bags and packs to buy.

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The nutrient barrelFinished

Enter what you applied to 1 acre and see which nutrient limits your crop.

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Unit and bag converterFinished

Converts acres to kanal and maunds to kilograms, and shows the kilograms of each nutrient in any VAN pack.

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PilotWorks, but does not yet cover every crop.
Soil adjustmentPilot

Enter your soil test reading, or choose your district if you have no test, and the tool adjusts the quantities in your crop plan.

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Nutrient balancePilot

Compares the nutrients applied under your crop plan with the nutrients taken out in the harvested crop.

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Crop water needsPilot

Shows how much water your crop needs over the season in your district, and how much rain normally falls there.

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Farm discipline simulatorPilot

Score how well you follow 10 farm practices for wheat or potato, and see which gaps in your practice lower your yield.

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Where your crop is nowPilot

For wheat: enter your sowing date to see the crop’s growth stage and the applications in your crop plan that are due at that stage.

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Use it here

Convert land, weight and the nutrients in a bag

This converter does 3 calculations that farmers and dealers otherwise do on paper. The “What's in the bag” tab uses the declared analyses of VAN’s brands, so the kilograms it shows are the guaranteed figures printed on the label.

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Acres
0.4
Hectares
8
Kanal
160
Marla

1 acre = 8 kanal = 160 marla = 0.404686 hectare.

What the tools are based on

The tools are based on 5 sources: VAN’s 28 published crop plans; the declared analyses of VAN’s 23 brands; the Punjab soil survey of 770,160 samples, tested in about 2016 to 2018; FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, for crop water needs; and figures from the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), for the nutrients taken out in the harvested crop. Wherever a tool shows an estimate, the figure is labelled as an estimate.

Pages, not tools

These pages do not need any figures from you.

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