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VAN Yield & Discipline Simulator. Nutrition decides about 1/4 of the yield. Sowing, seed, water, weeds and pests decide the rest.

The world talks about nutrition and uptake, and it matters. This tool adds what the field actually does: when it was sown, how it was watered, how thick it stands, and what that does to the yield the nutrition was planned for.

Wheat and potato are live. wheat → · potato →

26 more crops follow, each as its lever set is built and reviewed. If something is missing from this list that costs you yield on your own field, tell us before the next upgrade and it goes in.

Discipline dial · preview

Move the practices. Watch the needle and the row.

Directions only, and deliberately so. No figure is printed here. Wheat and potato have working simulators with their own 10 levers; the rest of the 26 follow as each crop’s lever set is built.

Pick your crop2 live · 26 in build

Wheat has a working simulator. 10 levers, its own weights, your own season. Open it →

Land preparation
Sowing date
Seed and stand
Basal fertilizer
Irrigation
Top-dressing nitrogen
Weeds
Zinc and boron
Harvest
Attainable yieldillustrative
OFF COURSEON COURSE

directions only · no figure is printed

On course. Every practice in its window: the nutrition plan can deliver the target it was set for.

How it works

8 things you tell it. 5 things it tells you.

Your field, as it is

  1. 1Crop and variety, from Pakistan’s list, not a generic one.
  2. 2District and soil, the Punjab survey’s 770,160 samples and VAN’s own set the soil prior; a laboratory report overrides it.
  3. 3Target yield, in maunds per acre, against what the district can carry.
  4. 4Sowing date, the day, not the month.
  5. 5Irrigation, canal, tube well or both, and the schedule you can keep.
  6. 6Plant population, seed rate and stand.
  7. 7Cropping pattern, what the field carried before: rice–wheat, cotton–wheat, cane and ratoon.
  8. 8Practices. Weed window, top-dressing, harvest window.

Your yield, your score, your plan

  1. 1Your attainable yield, with the discipline you described, on your field.
  2. 2Your discipline score, which practices carry the target, and which one is costing you most.
  3. 3The nutrients in kilograms. N, P₂O₅, K₂O, the secondaries and the micros, stage by stage, after the soil’s own contribution.
  4. 4The VAN products that deliver them. Product, stage, method and pack, from the crop programmes already on this site.
  5. 5What each slip costs, and the way back.
What it is built on

The figures come from ground VAN owns and samples VAN read.

Every figure it prints carries its source: VAN’s own trials first, published Pakistani research with its citation second.

17 years

of trial data from VAN’s research farms, counted from 2009

770,160

Punjab soil samples, the provincial survey read with VAN’s own

28 crop programmes

already on this site, product by stage, with their PDF sheets

LAB 336

the PNAC-accredited laboratory that tests the batches the plan names

Your crop next

Wheat and potato run today. Tell us which crop you want next.

Leave your crop and district on WhatsApp or by email and we tell you when your crop is added.