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    Balancing Fertilizer Usage with Real-Time NPK Data: A Precision Agriculture Model for Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan
    (Library Information Services, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, 2025) Jawad Hassan; CIIT/SP24-RCS-005/LHR; Dr. Tariq Umer; LHR TO 10036
    Pakistan is facing a lot of problems in the agriculture sector as the use of imbalanced fertilizers and inefficiency of nutrients management is going to cause the very low yield of the agricultural fields. It is a matter of fact that traditional agricultural methods often lead to the inappropriate distribution of fertilizers that affects the crop yields, hikes soil infertility, and devastates the environment even more. Either more or less fertilizers usage disrupts the nutrient balance in the soil thereby creating longer agricultural inefficiencies. Utilizing real-time soil and climate monitoring and analysis can provide the technological power to deal with these challenges as AI-driven precision agriculture gains popularity. This research is dedicated to the development of an intelligent fertilizer recommendation system by using sensor-based NPK analysis that is combined with Al decision-making. This system will use prompt and accurate data from soil nutrient sensors, weather conditions, and crop requirements to provide recommendations of a proper fertilization dosage to specific fields. The novel approach seeks to minimize fertilizer wastage, to lower the environmental impact, and to maximize crop yields. The new method aims to reduce the waste of fertilizer, to keep the environmental impact at a low level, and to make the harvest bigger. One of the approaches involves the use of IoT-based soil monitoring systems to gather real-time data, training of machine learning models on historical soil and crop data for nutrient requirements prediction, and the development of a user-friendly decision-support system for farmers. This will be achieved through the provision of actional insights for the farmers who will later take the necessary course of action in their fertilizer applications. Optimizing nutrient management through the use of the new system is the way to go to stop the degradation Environmental issues like soil acidification and