Soil Health Assessment Practitioner

The Certified Soil Health Assessment Practitioner course is a practical, career-focused programme designed to help learners understand, assess and interpret soil health for better agricultural decision-making.

Learners will explore soil types, soil sampling approaches and key soil health indicators, including soil organic carbon, active carbon, aggregate stability, respiration and potentially mineralizable nitrogen. The course goes beyond understanding these indicators by helping learners interpret soil health results and connect findings to practical farm management decisions.

Through practical examples, case scenarios, knowledge checks and applied activities, learners will develop foundational skills for supporting soil health assessment in agricultural and extension settings.

By the end of the course, learners should be able to collect and document soil samples appropriately, explain key soil health indicators, interpret basic soil health results and communicate findings to support informed farm management decisions.

Suitable for: agricultural students and graduates, extension professionals, farm managers, agribusiness professionals and others interested in developing practical soil health assessment skills.