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Sanjeev Verma1, S.S. Dhakad2*, Vijay Agrawal3, RD Barpete1 and Anil Shinde4
1Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Betul (M.P) under Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya
(JNKVV) Jabalpur
2Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Shajapur (M.P) under Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia
Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior
3Zonal Agriculture Research Station,Powakheda, Narmadapuram (M.P.), under Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi VishwaVidyalaya (JNKVV), Jabalpur
4Nanaji Deshmukh Veterinary Science University Jabalpur
Email: sudhirdhakad@rediffmail.com
Received-01.07.2025, Revised-15.07.2025, Accepted-28.07.2025
Abstract: The Government of India launched the soil health card scheme during 2014-15. In this way, the state labels government agencies as well as NGOs, establishes soil health labs and mini soil health labs, and collects soil samples using GPS-based and grid-based methods. After analysis, large numbers of soil health cards (SHCs) are issued. Given the inception of the soil fitness card programme at some point of 2020-21, a good way to grow agricultural production and maintain soil health, a large quantity of soil health playing cards had been distributed to the farmers. This will examine the know-how, adoption and constraints of the soil health card. The existing study was completed. The farmers who were issued a soil health card were comparatively more aware of numerous soil health card aspects like main nutrients (N, P & K), soil pH, soil EC, Soil OC and micronutrients in comparison to farmers without a soil health card. Information suggests that the maximum number of respondents had a medium know-how rating, that is, fifty-six. Ninety-five per cent, according to the cent, followed by respondents with low expertise rating (28.34%), and the best 19.44 per cent respondents had high know-how rating, approximately soil fitness card. Important constraints confronted by the farmers in adoption consistent with the soil fitness card were difficulty in having expertise about the significance of micronutrients, the prices of fertilizers being too high and the non-availability of organic manure.
Keywords: Adoption, Constraints, Farmers’, expertise, Soil Health card
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