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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