PM Modi’s Agricultural Reforms Agenda February 19, 2015 by Deepak Parvatiyar As Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched on Thursday, the ambitious centrally-sponsored nationwide “Soil Health Card” (SHC) scheme in Suratgarh town in Sriganganagar, Rajasthan, this brings the focus on the Agricultural reforms of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government. The cards, that contain all basic information and crop-wise recommendations of fertilizers for different soil type, are expected to help individual farmers in making appropriate use of nutrients or fertilizers to improve productivity. They will cover over 14 crore farmers in the next three years with crop-wise recommendation of fertilisers to check overuse of fertilisers in farm lands. The launch ushers in a new era of agricultural reforms with a thrust on research. With 14.1 crore hectares of total cultivable land in the country, the government plans to take 2.48 lakh samples from all states and test
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