Vol. 13, Issue 1 (2024)

Author(s):
Lalit Kumar, Sonia Rani, DR Thakur and Meenakshi Devi

Abstract:
The Government of India launched Soil Health Cards (SHC) Scheme in February 2015. To find out the impact of Soil Health Card, the present study entitled “Awareness about soil health card by the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries’ farmers”. The multistage sampling design was employed. In first stage 2 blocks were selected randomly. In 2nd stage 2 panchayat were selected purposely from each blocks having maximum number of soil health card holders. In this way 80 farmers out of these beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries were selected randomly. The majority of beneficiaries respondents are aware of soil health card is govt. of India scheme had weighted mean score 2.57 and non-beneficiaries are aware of SHC helps to indicate the soil health have weighted mean score 1.67. Farmers general awareness toward SHC encourage judicious application of fertilizers have weighted mean score 2.45 in beneficiaries and SHC helps in practicing farming in scientific way have weighted mean score 1.45 in non-beneficiaries.