Compendium on Soil Health - Department of Agriculture & Co ...

Successes/Best Practices
The samples are collected from the adopted villages
by the lab staff with GPS location in order to generate
a location based data bank.
A target of collecting 7 lakh soil samples and their
analysis during the year 2011-12 was fixed by the
State Govt.
1. The IT department in the State has developed a website for use of farmers in which
online soil test report (soil health cards) are made available. Soil analysis data are
available online to the farmers since 2008-09. The farmer has to simply select his
district followed by village and the list of farmers and analyzed data will be available
with single click. The farmers can also get SHC through this facility.
2. A perusal of soil test reports over a period of 30 years i.e. during 1980-2011, shows
that the samples falling into low category of organic carbon have reduced from 80% to
68.4% (1980 to 2011). During the corresponding period samples in the medium
category increased from 18% to 31.5% (1980 to 2011). The samples in high category
were reduced from 2% to 0.1%. (Source: HAU website).