Thursday, 14 May 2015

Punjab in Soil Health Cards to farmers -Daily GK all - 1th May 2015

All agriculture extension officers have been issued instructions to coordinate with Soil Conservation department to make this campaign a great success.
“Every district has been assigned one mobile soil testing lab that would take soil sample from every farm and issue a digitalised soil health card with centralised data of central server of the department,” said the State Agriculture Minister Jathedar Tota Singh.

He said that constant monitoring of health profile of various farms in the State was imperative keeping in view over exploitation of soil after the advent of green revolution in the State.

“It is now necessary to maintain the soil health structure and educating the farmers to use right quantity of fertilisers to prevent soil becoming arid,” he said.

Giving details of the project, the Minister said that he was personally monitoring this ambitious project and after micro and macro profile of soil structure, the Punjab Government would come out with a comprehensive cropping and agriculture diversification plan keeping in view the soil content of that area.
Keeping in view the over exploitation of soil during last 20 years, the Punjab Agriculture Department on Tuesday launched an ambitious
pan-State programme to monitor the soil health of every farm in the State by issuing them personalised soil health card
Agriculture Department has been told to launch educative campaign to inform farmers regarding compatibility of particular soil with particular crop 




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