Rajasthan

• 20 Feb 2025

Soil Health Card Day Soil Health Card Day

Why in News? 

The 10^th 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 

• 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.