Shri Radha Mohan Singh, Union Agriculture Minister launched 3 web portals viz. Soil Health Card portal, Fertiliser Quality Control System portal and Participatory Guarantee System.
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These portals seek to make the process of fertilisers’ quality checking, organic farming certification and issuance of soil health cards more transparent and accountable.
Soil Health Card Portal
- Developed for registration of soil samples, recording test results of soil samples and generation of Soil Health Card (SHC) along with Fertilizer Recommendations.
- It promotes uniform adoptions of codes for e.g. Census Codes for locations.
- The system has sample tracking feature and will provide alerts to farmers about sample registration and generation of Soil Health Card through SMS and Email.
- Portal aims to generate and issue Soil Health Cards based on either Soil Test-Crop Response (STCR) formulae developed by ICAR or General Fertilizer Recommendations provided by State Governments.
Fertilizer Quality Control System Portal
- The FQCS application will lead to automation of most of the manual activities as listed above and help in online tracking the status of the sample.
- Mobile application has also been provided to enable inspectors to enter the details of the samples in Form J while at the ports itself.
- The role based access to the system for users and computerized generation of sample code no. have been provided for the purpose of security.
Participatory Guarantee System
- Participatory Guarantee System is a process of certifying organic products which ensures agriculture production process in accordance with the standards laid down for organic products and that desired quality has been maintained.
- In order to promote domestic organic market growth and also to enable small and marginal farmer to have easy access to organic certification, a decentralized organic farming certification system called Participatory Guarantee System –India (PGS-India) is implemented by the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India
Fertilizers enhance the growth of plants. Fertilizers typically provide, in varying proportions:
1.Three main macronutrients: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K)
2.Three secondary macronutrients: calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and sulfur (S)
3.Micronutrients: copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), zinc (Zn), boron (B), and of occasional significance there are silicon (Si), cobalt (Co), and vanadium (V) plus rare mineral catalysts.
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