The Constraints faced by the Soil Health Card Holders in Utilization of Soil Health Card and Suggestions to Overcome them

Author: Ravindra Bhagvat Borse, Ashish Kumar Nagar, Deepak Kumar Jaiswal, Arpit Somtiya and Awanish Kumar

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Abstract

Healthy soils are the foundation of a healthy life. Soil health refers to the ability of soil, as a living system, to sustain biological productivity, animal and plant health, and environmental quality. Maintaining soil health requires conservation and intentional management of soil health principles. It’s worth it, though. Life, dependent on soil, cannot thrive in unhealthy soils – creating major downstream impacts on human, animal, and plant health. Global soil partnership was conducted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization at its headquarters in Rome, Italy, from 7 to 9 September 2011. With this, Government of India had launched the Soil Health Card Scheme in 2015 to distribute soil health cards (SHCs) to each farmer with advanced technologies such as GPS-enabled tablets and mass testing, along with better fertilizer subsidy policies. The present study was conducted in Jabalpur (M.P.), In Patan block 6 villages i.e. Barkheda, Baroda, Chapod, Luhari, Nunsar and Pipariya were having 88, 74, 84, 90, 63 and 95 number of soil health card holders selected because of maximum number of soil health card, respectively

Keywords

soil health, card, healthy, agriculture, crop season

Conclusion

Thus, it can be concluded that major constraints faced by the SHC holders about soil health card were difficult to calculate fertilizer dose on the basis of nutrients status of soil followed by extension worker/expert/ supervisor are not available to advice and no soil testing laboratory available in nearby area. respondents on the importance of incorporating specific elements into the soil health card, such as guidance on calculating fertilizer doses, regular distribution of cards, establishment of local testing facilities, timely issuance of cards, and farmer education on soil sampling and nutrient management

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Ravindra Bhagvat Borse, Ashish Kumar Nagar, Deepak Kumar Jaiswal, Arpit Somtiya and Awanish Kumar (2024). The Constraints faced by the Soil Health Card Holders in Utilization of Soil Health Card and Suggestions to Overcome them. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 16(10): 35-37