{"id":16259,"date":"2017-08-28T23:27:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16259"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T10:18:54","slug":"soil-health-cards-punjab-govts-another-revolutionary-step-for-agriculture-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=16259","title":{"rendered":"Soil Health Cards: Punjab govt\u2019s another revolutionary step for agriculture reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lahore, August 28 (TNS):<\/strong> In another ground-breaking move, Shahbaz Sharif led Punjab government launched a programme to monitor the soil health of every farm in the province by issuing farmers personalised soil health card.<\/p>\n<p>Five-year programme was launched last year; the initiative is keeping in view the overexploitation of soil.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative provides information on soil deficiencies and amount and kind of fertilizer needed to get better crops.<\/p>\n<p>The project is started with sum of Rs. 4.176 billion and 560,000 samples were collected during first year covering 20% area of Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>Under the project, Punjab would able to produce 1.285 million tonnes additional wheat as by soil testing farmers get 120-360 kg per acre more wheat with no extra costs.<\/p>\n<p>Small farmers with 10 acres of land can be benefited by the project.<br \/>buy grifulvin online <a href=\"https:\/\/healingtohappy.com\/wp-content\/languages\/en\/grifulvin.html\">https:\/\/healingtohappy.com\/wp-content\/languages\/en\/grifulvin.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Punjab agriculture department said 32 districts have been given its mobile laboratory to collect soil samples from every farm and issue farmers soil health card.<\/p>\n<p>Each lab can test 22,000 soil samples a year while the data collected by the project would be available online through a Geographic Information System.<\/p>\n<p>Under the scheme the government plans to issue Soil card to farmers which will carry crop-wise recommendations of nutrients and fertilizers required for the individual farms to help farmers to improve productivity through judicious use of inputs.<\/p>\n<p>All soil samples are be tested in various soil testing labs across the province. Thereafter the experts will analyze the strength and weaknesses (micro-nutrients deficiency) of the soil and suggest measures to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wh4TyQasJo4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore, August 28 (TNS): In another ground-breaking move, Shahbaz Sharif led Punjab government launched a programme to monitor the soil health of every farm in the province by issuing farmers personalised soil health card. Five-year programme was launched last year; the initiative is keeping in view the overexploitation of soil. The initiative provides information on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,23],"tags":[157,589],"class_list":["post-16259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-national","tag-lahore","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102267,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16259\/revisions\/102267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}