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Soil Health Cards:Limitations and Ways to Fix the Loopholes


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1 ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Jaisalmer 345 001, India
2 ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 208 024, India
 

The Government of India had initiated the Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme in February 2015 to promote balanced ferti-lization to protect soil health and for sustainable agriculture. SHC is a field-specific detailed report of soil fertility status and other important soil parame-ters that affect crop productivity. It is similar to a physician’s prescription, where the health status of the soil is pro-vided and recommendations are made to the farmers accordingly. Details in a SHC includes 12 important parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity (EC), organic carbon, macro-nutrients like N, P and K, secondary nutrients like sulphur and micronutrients such as zinc, iron, manganese, copper and boron1 .
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  • https://soilhealth.dac.gov.in/
  • http://iari.res.in/files/Divisions/SSAC/Pusa_STFR_Meter-27102016.pdf
  • https://icar.org.in/files/NRM-2702.pdf

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Ankita Trivedi
ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Jaisalmer 345 001, India
Asik Dutta
ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 208 024, India

Abstract


The Government of India had initiated the Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme in February 2015 to promote balanced ferti-lization to protect soil health and for sustainable agriculture. SHC is a field-specific detailed report of soil fertility status and other important soil parame-ters that affect crop productivity. It is similar to a physician’s prescription, where the health status of the soil is pro-vided and recommendations are made to the farmers accordingly. Details in a SHC includes 12 important parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity (EC), organic carbon, macro-nutrients like N, P and K, secondary nutrients like sulphur and micronutrients such as zinc, iron, manganese, copper and boron1 .

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv118%2Fi9%2F1337-1338