Over 34 MN soil health cards disbursed, says agri ministry

In order to provide with soil health cards to farmers across the state, India has distributed 34.47 million soil health cards

In order to provide with soil health cards to farmers across the state, India has distributed 34.47 million soil health cards, Indian minister of state for agriculture & farmers welfare, Parshottam Rupala informed the upper house recently.

As on November 15, 2016m, 21.29 million samples were collected, 12.79 million samples tested and 34.47 million soil health cards distributed to farmers in cycle 2015-16 to 2016-17, the minister said.

Government has introduced Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme with the aim to provide Soil Health Cards to all 140 million land holdings across the country once in a cycle of 2 years.

Soil Health Cards provide farmers with recommendations on appropriate dosage of nutrients to be applied for cultivation of various crops along with soil amendments.

Nationally agreed norms / standards of 10 hectares for rainfed areas and 2.5 hectare for irrigated areas will be the grid for soil sample collection.

A total of around 25.3 million samples will be collected and tested to generate 140 million soil health cards to individual farm land holdings.

Setting up 460 new soil testing labs

For further augmentation of these soil testing labs, setting up of 460 new soil testing labs (380 static + 80 mobile) have been sanctioned under Soil Health Management Scheme during 2014-15 to 2016-17 (as on 16.11.2016).

There are 1414 Soil Testing Labs available with an analyzing annual capacity of 19.52 million samples in the country.

Apart from this 2296 mini soil testing labs are also sanctioned under the scheme during 2016-17.

State-wise Status of Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme as on 15.11.2016
Sl. No.	State	Cumulative Target for Soil Samples during Cycle-I (2015-16 & 2016-17)	No. of Samples Collected	No. of Samples Tested	Cumulative Target for distribution of SHCs for Cycle-I (2015-16 & 2016-17)	No. of SHCs Distributed to farmers
Sl. No.	State		No. of Samples Collected	No. of Samples Tested		No. of SHCs Distributed to farmers
1	Andhra Pradesh	1348382	1207311	1095267	7455204	4355143
2	Arunachal Pradesh	20532	14632	10202	113523	1392
3	Assam	278707	103588	35055	1540968	81787
4	Bihar	1308778	833799	501980	7236233	1635466
5	Chhattisgarh	703691	630245	376994	3890709	1127545
6	Goa	25000	25000	25000	77459	20372
7	Gujarat	1589236	2005000	1377000	8786883	1366016
8	Haryana	788670	761917	412729	4360555	299890
9	Himachal Pradesh	69635	81323	80502	385011	339623
10	J & K	165318	80181	52374	914044	91763
11	Jharkhand	115302	101812	67732	637507	134447
12	Karnataka	1665765	1164221	926529	9210012	674128
13	Kerala	127585	90151	91919	705420	117623
14	Madhya Pradesh	2313977	2029382	872515	12793976	2776397
15	Maharashtra	2347121	2386912	1685000	12977232	5781000
16	Manipur	20713	8630	4199	114522	3302
17	Meghalaya	27338	34399	29543	151150	28674
18	Mizoram	11986	8551	7666	11986	7666
19	Nagaland	33423	24995	20675	184797	17700
20	Odisha	668635	562113	414535	3696881	1306124
21	Punjab	835526	447047	248099	4619621	514928
22	Rajasthan	2308013	2082942	716910	12761005	1930487
23	Sikkim	13217	13217	13217	46000	27000
24	Tamil Nadu	1274536	1193722	898706	7046911	3688746
25	Telangana	1034678	1088957	739960	5720737	2266091
26	Tripura	32736	24935	22381	180998	22381
27	Uttarakhand	135738	110555	99380	750494	422471
28	Uttar Pradesh	4770399	3630176	1525627	26391089	4271901
29	West Bengal	1300349	543567	438746	7189629	1160000
Union Territories
30	Andaman & Nicobar	1405	1870	1870	7799	0
31	Chandigarh	277	544	0	1532	0
32	Dadar & Nagar Haveli	2162	0	0	12000	0
33	Puducherry	3530	4629	3640	19594	30
Total		25342360	21296323	12795952	139991481	34470093

Statement of State-wise number of Soil Testing Labs and their capacity in the country.

Sl. No	State	Number of STLs	Capacity per annum (no. of soil samples in lakh)
I	South Zone
1	Andhra Pr.	95	4.83
2	Karnataka	65	3.0566
3	Kerala	28	2.38
4	Tamil Nadu	49	58.0672
5	Puducherry	2	0.04
	Telangana	3	0.3
	Sub Total	242	68.6738
II.	West Zone
6	Gujarat	141	14.32
7	Madhya Pr.	63	3.78
8	Maharashtra	181	24.7135
9	Rajasthan	114	10.86
10	Chhattisgarh	22	1.95
11	Goa	4	0.43
	Sub Total	525	56.0535
III	North Zone
12	Haryana	40	3.65
13	Punjab	71	6.315
14	Uttarakhand	16	1.0654
15	Uttar Pradesh	291	42.595
16	Himachal Pr.	21	1.85
17	Jammu & Kashmir	24	1.62
18	Delhi	1	0.05
	Sub Total	464	57.1454
IV	East Zone
19	Bihar	45	2.9
20	Jharkhand	8	0.4
21	Orissa	33	3.6
22	West Bengal	36	2.724
	Sub Total	122	9.624
V	NE Zone
23	Assam	15	1.24
24	Tripura	8	0.55
25	Manipur	8	0.4
26	Meghalaya	6	0.3
27	Nagaland	4	0.55
28	Arunachal Pr.	8	0.09
29	Sikkim	6	0.37
30	Mizoram	6	0.27
	Sub Total	61	3.77
	Grand Total	1414	195.2667

Over 34 MN soil health cards disbursed, says agri ministry

In order to provide with soil health cards to farmers across the state, India has distributed 34.47 million soil health cards

Setting up 460 new soil testing labs

News

Others

Features & Interviews

Rates

Links

Events

Over 34 MN soil health cards disbursed, says agri ministry

In order to provide with soil health cards to farmers across the state, India has distributed 34.47 million soil health cards

Setting up 460 new soil testing labs

Share with

News

Others

Features & Interviews

Rates

Links

Events

Login with