Perception and use efficiency of soil health card by the farmers

By Jigneshkumar Charel

Soil is one of the most essential natural resource for Agriculture production and agriculture is the source of livelihood in India for most of the people. Healthy soil is the foundation for profitable, productive, and environmentally sounds agricultural systems. Farmers must know about soil productivity and soil fertility. Perceptions of farmers about this concept are crucial to manage their agriculture production and efficiently use the chemical fertilizers. Make this thing easy to understand the government of India launched Soil Health Programme, which issues Soil Health Card for every land to farmers. Farmer can verify the soil specimen through scientists who examine the mineral composition in the soil. Based on the report, they can provide the fertilizer with appropriate mineral percentage which helped in soil enrichment and also reduced the erosion of the land in great extent. Soil Health Card is viewed as an entirely safe technique to the environment and can be used to optimize the use of fertilizers in the integrated nutrient management (INM) systems. It is very crucial to farmer to have understood contains of Soil Health Card and efficiently use the recommendation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6139580900
• ISBN13: 9786139580903
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"