Agriculture Minister Brijmohan Agrawal has directed officials to launch a ‘Soil health card scheme’ for the farmers which would enable them easily change the crop cycle atleast three times on their land.
The project would enable the farmers become aware of an entire soil status in their farm land. The Minister has directed the officials that 26 lakh farmers must receive the ‘Soil Health Card’ within a span of one year. Agrawal said that the services of experts from the private and government engineering colleges would be utilized for the project. The Agriculture university and other universities affiliated with it would play a significant role in implementation of the project, he said.
The experts would carry out a soil test and tell farmers about the real situation of the soil health of their agricultural land. The entire record of the soil health of the land would be available in the ‘Soil Health Card’ made available to the farmer, he said The ‘Soil Health Card’ would help the farmer do a self-analysis of what crop to be cultivated in a season.
In this way the farmer would also be able to take a decision about other crop cycles, he said.