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Soil Health Card Scheme

Consider the following statements:

The nation-wide ‘Soil Health Card Scheme’ aims at

  1. expanding the cultivable area under irrigation.
  2. enabling the banks to assess the quantum of loans to be granted to farmers on the basis of soil quality.
  3. checking the overuse of fertilizers in farmlands.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?

(a) 1 and 2 only

(b) 3 only

(c) 2 and 3 only

(d) 1, 2 and 3

Solution: (b) 3 only

Soil Health card (SHC) aims to checking the overuse of fertilizers in farmlands. It is a printed report card issued to farmers in once in three years indicating the status of his soil in terms of 12 parameters. It is also accompanied by an advice on the various fertilizers and other soil amendments he is suppose to make. So, only 3 is correct.

Statement 2: This can be an outcome of the scheme and complement it, but it is not an aim or a central feature of the scheme.

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