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Transcript of NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR KHARIF CAMPAIGN 2015 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TELANGANA (7 th – 8 th...
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
FOR KHARIF CAMPAIGN 2015
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
TELANGANA
(7th – 8th APRIL 2015)
GROUP - I
STRATEGY TO ISSUE SOIL HEALTH CARDS IN TIME BOUND MANNER
GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANAGOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA
Targets & Achievements under Soil Testing Programme during 2014-15 upto 15th March 2015
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Name of the Item
Target Achievement Soil Health Cards despatched
Soil Samples for Macronutrients
99000 103716 95951
Soil Samples for Micronutrients
57600 13528
IrrigationWater samples
8880 8632
“Soil Health Card” scheme under NMSA
• The Department of Agriculture has planned to issue Soil Health Cards to all the farmers in the State in a phased manner, over a period of three years.
• This project will be taken up
i) initially in 1/3rd of the villages
ii) rest of 2/3rd villages during subsequent
two years.
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Plan of Action:
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Area Extent (lakh ha)
No. of samples to be collected & analyzed
Rainfed area 28.80 @ 1 sample for 10 ha
2.9 lakhs
Irrigated area
17.74 @ 1 sample for 2.5 ha
7.1 lakhs
Total
10.00 lakhs
These 10 lakhs samples have to be analyzed in 3 years @ 3.3 lakh samples per year.
Budget releases during 2014-15:
• GoI releases: Rs 93.48 lakhs
• Funds released by State: Rs 230.80 lakhs *
* As the budget was released during fag end of the year, bills were not honored.
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Mode of collection:• The grid points for collection of soil
samples will be marked by NBSS & LUP on the digitized cadastral maps.
• According to the grid points MAOs will collect soil samples.
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Mode of analysis:• 1.5 lakh samples- will be analyzed by
Departmental STLs
• 1.8 lakh samples - will be analyzed through private agencies on payment basis.
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• Guidelines issued to the districts for collection of soil samples
• Soil Health Card (SHC) was designed with few changes in the original card and software was also developed for entering the results in the (SHC) online.
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Efforts to Issue Soil Health Cards in Time
• Farmer Participatory Approach
• Delivery of Soil Health Cards through
a) Toll Free Number
b) Internet
c) Mobile
d) Kiosks
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Land Resource Inventory of Telangana
• In addition to Soil Health Card scheme
• Department of Agriculture entered into MoU with NBSS & LUP
i) To conduct soil survey on 1:10,000 scale
ii) For efficient crop planning and resource management.
• This project is taken on pilot basis in 3 mandals of 3 districts which will be completed by April 2015.
• The rest of the State will be completed in 4 years commencing from May 2015 to April 2019 in a phased manner.
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Soil Profile studies of Pilot Mandals
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Soil Profile studies of Pilot Mandals
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Soil Profile studies of Pilot Mandals Soil Profile studies of Pilot Mandals
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Thank You