Rajasthan
Soil Health Card Day Soil Health Card Day
- 20 Feb 2025
- 2 min read
Why in News?
The 10th Soil Health Card Day was celebrated on 19 February, 2025 in India .
Key Points
- Soil Health Card Scheme:
- This scheme was launched by the Prime Minister on 19 February 2015 in Suratgarh, Rajasthan.
- The theme of this scheme is: Healthy Earth, Green Fields.
- Objective
- Distributing soil health cards to farmers at an interval of every 2 years.
- Providing necessary guidance to farmers for improving soil health and its fertility
- Providing information to farmers about the nutrient status of soil along with proper quantity of nutrients
- Strengthening of Soil Testing Laboratories (STL)
- To solve the problem of soil fertility in the states
- To provide corrective measures
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- Portal
- Soil Health Card Portal provides a facility to generate Soil Health Cards for the benefit of farmers in a uniform and standardized format in all major languages and 5 dialects across the country.
- Soil health card contains the status of soil with respect to 12 parameters, such as
- Macro nutrients: Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K)
- Secondary Nutrients : Sulfur (S)
- Micronutrients: Zinc (Zn), Iron (Fe), Copper (Cu), Manganese (Mn), Boron (B)
- Physical Parameters: pH, Electrical Conductivity (EC), Organic Carbon (OC)
- Based on this, the card also gives the fertilizer recommendations and soil amendments required for the farm.
- Soil samples are generally taken twice a year, after harvesting of Rabi and Kharif crops respectively or when there is no standing crop in the field.
