PES Technologies

The Future of Soil Health Measurement

Globally, soils are in a perilous state – almost half are degraded or heavily degraded, and they will get worse if nothing is done to restore them to good health. The cost of this degradation is estimated to be $231B per annum globally, and £1.2B in the UK alone.

While there are a lot of efforts aimed at improving soil health, they are hampered by a lack of good-quality, affordable testing for the biological part of soil – the part that makes it “soil”, rather than dust. If you don’t measure the biological aspects of soil, you cannot understand how healthy a soil really is.

To address this, we have developed an easy-to-use device that provides near-instant results on a variety of biological, chemical and physical indicators needed for a comprehensive soil health assessment. And we provide these affordably, direct to users' mobile phones.