1. GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
FOR KHARIF CAMPAIGN 2015
GROUP - I
STRATEGY TO ISSUE SOIL HEALTH CARDS IN TIME BOUND MANNER
(7th – 8th APRIL 2015)
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
TELANGANA

2. Targets & Achievements under Soil Testing Programme during 2014-15 upto 15th March 2015
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

3. “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.

4. Plan of Action: These 10 lakhs samples have to be analyzed
in lakh samples per year.
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

5. Budget releases during 2014-15:
GoI releases: Rs lakhs
Funds released by State: Rs lakhs *
* As the budget was released during fag end of the year, bills were not honored.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

12. Soil Profile studies of Pilot Mandals

13. Soil Profile studies of Pilot Mandals

14. Soil Profile studies of Pilot Mandals

15. Thank You