Attitude of Farmers towards Soil Health Card (SHC) Programme

The present study was conducted in five villages' viz., Gana, Mogari, Vadod, Gopalpura, Ravdapura and Bedhava of Anand district of Gujarat state to assess the attitude of farmers towards soil health card programme. A scale developed by Department of Extension Education to measure attitude of the farmers towards soil health card programme was used to measure attitude of the farmers. Total 100 farmers were approached personally by the investigators for the collection of relevant data. The study revealed that more than one third (35 per cent) of farmers had neutral attitude towards soil health card programme, while 20 per cent of farmers had strongly favourable attitude. Equal number (17 per cent) of farmers had unfavorable and strongly unfavorable attitude towards soil health card programme. Rest of them (11 per cent) had favourable attitude towards soil health card programme, respectively.