Ministry of Agriculture &
Farmers Welfare
Quality of Soil
Posted On:
21 DEC 2021 5:11PM by PIB Delhi
The Government is implementing Soil Health Card (SHC) scheme since 2015-16 to ascertain soil health and fertility. Soil Health Card provides nutrient status of the soil along with prescription about balanced and integrated use of inorganic and organic fertilizers to maintain good soil health that results in increase in production. The number of soil health cards issued to farmers in the country is given below:
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Cycle / Year
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Number of SHCs issued to farmers
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Cycle – I (2015-17)
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10.74 crore
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Cycle – II (2017-19)
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11.97 crore
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Model Village Programme (2019-20)
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19.64 lakh
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The Government is organizing farmers trainings, demonstrations on farmers field and farmers melas to educate to farmers from time to time for improvement of soil quality. Since 2015, around 6.04 lakh demonstrations, 93,781 trainings and 7425 farmers melas are organized under Soil Health Card scheme.
The Government of Rajasthan has tested 2.52 lakh farmers soil samples in districts Tonk and 1.45 lakh in Sawai Madhopur since 2015-16.
This information was given by Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
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