Soil health cards for all farmers in three years

Soil Health Cards will be issued to 2,47,050 farmers in the district within the next three years, said Joint Director for Agriculture (in charge) Sarnath Babu.

Addressing the farmer’s grievance day meeting at the Collectorate here on Friday, he said that the cards would of great help to the farmers since there will be details of how to fertilize soil, crops suitable for cultivation and issues that needed attention.

Explaining the procedure involved, S. Manoranjitham, Agricultural Officer (Soil Testing Laboratory), said that they had procured maps of all villages and grouped the lands with the help of GPS.

“One soil sample will be tested for 2.5 hectares of irrigated land. For dry lands, one soil sample that covers 10 hectares will be tested.

Assistant Agricultural Officers (AAO) in each block are collecting the samples from the earmarked areas under the supervision of officials from the soil testing lab,” she explained.