Find out the constraints faced by wheat growers and provide suggestions for adaptation to soil health card

Abstract

Soil Health Management aims at judicious and responsible use of chemical fertilizers on farms maintaining micro and macro nutrients of soil. The Soil Health Card scheme was started by Government of India in 2015 which offers a qualitative evaluation of soil health by collecting soil samples & testing the vital parameters. Soil health card lays more focus on chemical nutrient indicators, whereas physical and biological properties are not included. A study was conducted in Patan block of Jabalpur district on proportionate random sample 120 wheat growers who were also Soil health card beneficiaries. The research titled Find out the constraints faced by wheat growers and provide suggestions for adaptation to Soil Health Card. The study reveals that 90.83% wheat growers don’t know how to take soil sample as the major constraint followed by don’t know where soil testing is done (71.66%) and not all the fertilizers mentioned in the Soil health card are easily available (70.00%). Some useful suggestions provided to respondents to minimize the constraints that majority (95.83%) of respondents is accepted that soil testing laboratory should be established at Taluka level with highly qualified supporting staff followed by 91.66% accepted that farmer should be trained to take soil sample of its own soil, 88.33% accepted that recommend such fertilizers which are available in the market.