1. Recommendations on Implementation of SOIL HEALTH CARD SCHEME Group VII

2. State participated Gujarat Andhra Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Telangana
Tamilnadu
Chhattisgarh
West Bengal
Jammu and Kashamir
Uttar pradesh
Kerala

3. Status of Soil Health Card Scheme
A total of about 2.53 crore soil samples are required to be collected and tested to generate about 14 crore Soil Health Cards (SHC) to individual farmers in a cycle of 2 years.
The first cycle is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year

4. Achievement (April- August)
Soil sampling
Year
Target
Achievement
Achievement (April- August)
100 lakh
91 lakh
43.37 lakh
153 lakh
lakh
lakh
Total
253 lakh
lakh
80%

5. Achievement (April- August)
Soil testing
Year
Target
Achievement
Achievement (April- August)
100 lakh
61 lakh
16.10 lakh
153 lakh
44.16 lakh
39.94 lakh
Total
253 lakh
lakh
42%

6. State wise per month samples yet to be tested
Sr No
States
Testing to made(Lakh)
Per month average (Lakh) 1
Assam
2.5
0.5 2
Bihar
9.0
1.75 3
Chhatisgarh
4.0
0,8 4
Gujarat
8.5
1.3 5
Haryana
5.0
1.0 6
Karnataka
10.0
2.0 7
Madhya Pradesh
16.0
3.5 8
Maharashtra 9
Orissa
3.0
0.6

7. State wise per month samples yet to be tested
Sr No
States
Testing to made(Lakh)
Per month average (Lakh) 10
Punjab
6.0
1.2 11
Rajasthan
17.0
3.5 12
Tamilnadu 13
Telangana
4.0
0.8 14
Uttar pradesh
36.0
7.0 15
West Bengal
9.5
1.85

8. Printing and distribution of SHCs
Year
Target
Achievement
(April-August)
5.00 crore
1.62 crore
9.48 lakh
9.00 crore
1.20 crore
103 lakh
Total
14.00 crore
2.82 crore
20%

9. Recommendations of Group
Online Sample Registration Field should be simplified;
It was decided to delete some fields in National portal of SHC, for example:
Village Pin number
Farmers address
Sample source type
Source name
Soil type etc….

10. Recommendations of Group
In sample registration for additional Farmers of same grid only field for farmers’ history details should be displayed
Type of fertilizers should be included in soft ware as per requirement of state
NIC should develop offline sample registration synchronization system

11. Recommendations of Group
Number of servers and capacity of servers should be increased to minimize the time of data entry;
Online sample allocation to lab/ soil analyst process may be removed from SHC PORTAL ;
The Cycle for SHC programme may be of three years and the first cycle period may be extended up to March 2018; .

12. Recommendations of Group
ICAR/KVKs/SAUs should be instructed to participate with full lab capacity in SHC program
DGS&D rate can be provided for costly instrument like AAS.
“Bhuvan” based platform will be used to provide SMS based and soft copy of soil health card services

13. Thank You