Impact of Soil Health Card on Wheat Growers of Jabalpur District, India

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. It was found that most of the respondents were of medium adoption followed by low adoption of Soil health card. It was also observed that the variable age and family type had no significant relationship with soil health card adoption. The variables education, land area under wheat crop and annual income had positive and significant relationship with soil health card adoption at 5 per cent level of probability. While the variables caste, extension contact, sources of information, awareness of soil health card and scientific orientation had positive and highly significant relationship with adoption of Soil health card at 1 per cent level of probability.