SOIL HEALTH CARD

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Department of Agriculture Government of West
Bengal
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SOIL HEALTH CARD Farmer Friendly SOIL G2F
SERVICES
National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif
Campaign 2015 7 April, 2015. New Delhi
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SHC - Present Scenario Future Plan

• 2007 - 2014 Soil Health Card
• Web-based SHC since 2007
• 4.34 Lakh SHC distributed so far
• 48,294 SHC Distributed in 2013-14

• 2015 Onward SMART Soil Health Card
• Cloud based Digital Soil Map
• 14 Lakh Samples in WB, Every 3 Years
• 3.1 Lakh Samples in First Year
• Source Sample Authentication
• Process automation
• Soil G2F Service on Mobile Web
• Farmer Friendly, Advanced Solutions

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Soil Test Based Fertilizer Recommendation System
(STFRS)

1. Online Generation of Soil Health Card from any
   location (CSC)
2. Detailed Sample Registration - Source, Land
   Information Crop Information
3. SMS Request for soil testing
4. Acknowledgement SMS of receipt of soil sample at
   laboratory
5. Soil Fertility Maps

1. MIS Reports for administrators, laboratories and
   VLE
2. SMS Alerts to farmers about readiness of Soil
   Health Card
3. Recommendations from Experts
4. Generation of Soil Health Card in Vernacular and
   English

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a. SHC available to a farmer through a Govt Lab
Existing workflow Testing dissemination of
the information to the farmers
c. SHC available to a farmer through a VLE
b. SHC available to a farmer through a Non Govt
Lab
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Way Forward - SMART Soil Health Card
New SHC every 3 years to all Farmers of the State

• Introduction of Advanced ICT application to
  ensure,
• Source Sample Authentication
• Process Automation
• Farm level Data Capture Upload
• Real-time Update Digital Soil Map
• Mobile based Soil G2F Solutions
• Farmers friendly SHC

• Diagnose soil fertility related constraints (From
  Test Results) and design Panchayat/ block level
  fertilizer recommendations
• Develop and promote soil test based nutrient
  management practices in the districts
• To build capacities of district and state level
  staff and of progressive farmers for promotion of
  nutrient management practices
• STLs Capacity building Establishing new STLs

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Department of Agriculture Government of West
Bengal
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DIGITAL SOIL HEALTH MAP G2F SERVICES
Sample authentication I Source GIS I Test
capacity I Cloud database gt Farmer G2F
Services
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Department of Agriculture Government of West
Bengal
GIS based, Farmer friendly Smart Soil Health
Card Management System

• Planned ICT intervention will lead to
• Smart Soil health card Farmer friendly
  interfaces, Cloud data accessible on Phone
• G2F services on Soil Linking Fertilizer
  calculator to create Intelligent cropping
  pattern
• Authenticity of Soil Source Image Lat-Long
• Bar-Coded package Process automation ensuring
  Zero human error
• Feeding Test data in Cloud Auto create Digital
  Soil Map - Nutrient-wise
• How Farmers will get benefitted
• Intelligent Farm solutions Based on Soil test
  data - Even on Phone, 24/7
• Smart Health Card Access Soil test data in a
  useful way, 24/7
• GIS Automation Authenticity of Collection at
  Farm gate
• Time bound Solution Collection, Test Result
  publication in the fastest possible way
• Capacity building Soil Test Labs efficiency
  improvement
• Grass-root Awareness Promoting benefit of Soil
  test to farmers through Matir Katha

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Process Innovation 1 of 4
GIS based Collection Authenticity
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Bar Code/ QR Code Reader

• ADVANTAGE
• Source Sample Authenticity
• Linking Soil Package-Bar Code with Image Lat-Long
  
• Paperless process in 8Lakh locations
• Link Plot Dag number, Farmer Collection history
• Instant Data uploading at Cloud Database
• Zero Human error

Image Video Capture alongwith
Lat-Long (38.898556 -77.037852)
Online Form Fill-in Submission
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Process Innovation 2 of 4
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Zipped Polythene Bag
Bar Code/ Captcha Code Printer

• ADVANTAGE
• Sample accuracy by tagging at Source
• Data Authenticity by Source-Test Centre Matching
  
• Least chance of human error
• Zipped Bag to retain soil quality

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Process Innovation 3 of 4
Auto-generation of Digital Map by feeding Test
Data into Cloud Database
Test Data
Bar Code Data

• ADVANTAGE
• Bar-coded Test Tube - Accuracy in Test Result
  publishing
• Bar-code will Link Test result with Sample source
  code
• Fastest Auto generation of Digital map from Cloud
  Data

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Process Innovation 4 of 4
GIS Soil Map - Nutrient-wise Access Anywhere,
Anytime via Mobile/ Web
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A tabular presentation of the proposed process
flow
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Positive Impact of the proposed model

• 360 Degree Soil Knowledge Solution for the
  farmers of West Bengal
• Farmer Friendly
• Authentic Scientific
• Most advanced process at least cost
• Accessed from Anywhere, anytime
• Access via Web, Mobile or Print
• Optimum use of ICT for Zero Human error
• Unbiased Process flow

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Expected Outcome

• It will promote balanced and judicious use of
  plant nutrients.
• Promotion of integrated nutrient system is
  expected to reduce the consumption of chemical
  fertilizers by 20.
• The productivity of selected crops is expected to
  increase significantly.
• The demand for organic sources of plant nutrient
  like bio-fertilizers, organic manure,
  vermi-compost, slow release nitrogenous
  fertilizer like Neem/sulphur coated urea will
  increase, which in turn improve the soil
  fertility as well nutrient use efficiency.

• Distribution of Soil Health Cards to all the
  farmers in a round of every three years to
  promote Soil Health Management.
• Testing of 14 lacs soil samples as representative
  to all holdings in WB in 3 years cycle.
  Upgradation of 10 existing Govt STLs.
  Establishment of 34 new STLs in PPP mode.
• Sample authentication, unbiased testing, seamless
  data uploading, real-time generation of soil map
  real-time access of Smart Soil Health Card

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Sample Universe No of STLs
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Project Pilot Year 1
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Related Schemes

• Centrally Sponsored Scheme- Soil Health Card
• To issue SHC every 3 years to all farmers to
  address nutrient deficiencies in fertilization
  practices
• To strengthen functioning of Soil Testing
  Laboratories (STLs) through capacity building
• To diagnose soil fertility related constraints
  with standardized procedures for sampling
  uniformly
• To develop and promote soil test based nutrient
  management for enhancing nutrient use efficiency
• To build capacities of department staff and
  progressive farmers for promotion of nutrient
  management practices
• National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
  (NMSA)
• Setting up New STL 75 Assistance of total
  project cost to State Govt for SSTL subject to
  Maximum Limit of Rs 56 Lacs per SSTL/MSTL
• Strengthening Existing STL 75 of Assistance to
  State Govt subject to Maximum Limit of Rs 30 Lacs
• Soil Health Card Univrersalization in WB (State
  Plan)
• Soil Health Card also to capture in field
  observations like Soil Colour (if subsoil is
  darker than top soil), Compaction, Soil tilth,
  Depth of the soil, Surface hardness, Sub surface
  hardness, Soil Texture
• Arrange manpower for new testing capacity
• Arrange Software Development Project
  management, monitoring, audit etc

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Centrally Sponsored SHC Scheme
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NMSA State Plan
Proposed Implementing Agency