Five Years of Soil Health Card Scheme
The Central government’s flagship programme- Soil Health Card Scheme completed 5 years of its implementation.
Soil Health Card Scheme: Swasth Dhara Khet Hara
- It was launched on February 19, 2015, from Suratgarh (Rajasthan) to assess the nutrient status of every farm holding in the country.
- Punjab became the first state in India to issue Soil Health Cards (SHCs) to its farmers in May, 2015
Objectives
- To issue soil health cards to farmers every 2 years so as to provide a basis to address nutritional deficiencies in fertilization practices.
- To diagnose soil fertility related constraints with standardized procedures for sampling uniformly across ....
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