Over 70,000 C'garh farmers get soil health cards this fiscal

72,750 farmers were issued soil health cards (SHCs), under the central scheme, for their agricultural land in the current financial year in Chhattisgarh.
Thecardswill have technical and other key information regarding cultivation of the land concerned besides details of type ofsoiland the proper crops to be cultivated in it.
The districts where maximum cards were distributed are Janjgir-Champa (9,300 cards), Durg (7,750), Bemetara (5,890), Rajnandgaon (4,280) and Korba (3,450), a government spokesperson said.
"Under the scheme of Government of India, 72,750 SHCs have been distributed to farmers till last month in the ongoing fiscal," the spokesperson said.
The target is to cover around 36 lakh farmers under the schemewhich will help them better understand the use of nutrients, fertilisers and improve productivity of soil, they said.

As per the guidelines of Centre, the criteria for irrigated and non-irrigated land have been finalised to collect the samples of the soiltoassess the current status ofsoilhealth.
In next three years, farmers will be provided SHC after analysis of 8.78 lakh samples ofsoils, the official said.