scholarly journals Factors determining the soil health card adoption behaviour among farmers in Andhra Pradesh

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayalakshmi Mitnala
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Soil Testing ◽  
Current Status ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Health Card ◽  
Testing Laboratories

The soil health card (SHC) is used to assess the current status of soil health and when usedover time, helps to determine changes in soil health that are affected by land management. ASHC displays soil health indicators and associated descriptive terms. The SHC carries cropwiserecommendations of nutrients / fertilizers required for farms, making it possible forfarmers to improve productivity by using appropriate inputs. The Central Government isproviding assistance to State Governments for setting up soil testing laboratories for issuingsuch SHCs to farmers. State Governments have adopted innovative practices like involvementof agricultural students, NGOs and private sector in soil testing, determining average soilhealth of villages, etc., to issue SHCs. Though quite a few states including Tamil Nadu,Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Haryana are successfully distributing such cards, the Centreplans to make it a pan India effort. According to a data, till November 15th 2017, over 9.72 croresoil health cards have been issued to farmers to make them aware about nutrient deficienciesin their fields.

Soil and catchment health indicators of sustainability: case studies from southern Australia and possibilities for the northern grains region of Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Schwenke ◽  
D. J. Reuter ◽  
R. W. Fitzpatrick ◽  
J. Walker ◽  
P. O'Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Farm Productivity ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Structured Approach

During the last decade, a range of indicators has been advocated for assessing soil, farm and catchment health. This paper assembles some recent experiences of the authors in developing and using indicators from paddock to national scales. Indicators are merely a subset of the attributes that are used to quantify aspects of catchment or farm health. Their selection and use in the past has led to criticism of indicators, but, given an explicit approach, most of the criticisms can be overcome. Reliable indicators provide positive and negative signals about the current status of natural resources and how these properties have changed over time. They are used both to identify potential risks and to confirm that current farming practices and systems of land use are effective in maintaining the resource base or economic status. They should be precursors for change and future on-ground investments when problems are observed or identified.A structured approach is needed to ensure indicators are selected and used efficiently. This approach involves: deciding local issues and selecting the most appropriate indicators to reflect those issues; interpreting both positive and negative signals from the monitoring process; taking appropriate action to resolve problems; and, using indicators to monitor the outcomes from the action taken.Finally, we have drawn on these and other experiences to compile a list of indicators that may be used to address sustainability issues associated with farm productivity, soil health and catchment health identified in recent strategic plans developed for the northern grains region of Australia, the focus of this special journal issue.

scholarly journals Soil Health Assessment and Management: Recent Development in Science and Practices

Soil Systems ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Mingxin Guo
Keyword(s):  
Cover Crops ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Conservation Tillage ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Scientific Validity ◽  
Health Card ◽  
Research Education

In the past decade soil health has been intensively studied as a science and practiced as a means to help improve the global social, environmental, and economic sustainability. This paper reviews the recent advances of the scientific soil health system. The current understanding and interpretation of soil health from the perspectives of soil functions, processes, and properties is summarized. Multi-tier soil health indicators were selected from relevant soil physical, chemical, and biological parameters. A suite of soil health assessment methods have been developed, such as soil health card, Solvita soil health tests, Haney soil health test, and comprehensive assessment of soil health. An array of soil health management practices have been recommended, including proper land use, crop rotation, cover crops, conservation tillage, soil organic amendment, crop-range-livestock integration, and rotational grazing. Overall, the recommended soil health indicators and assessment methods need further validation and improvement in relevance, scientific validity, practicality, and local adaptation. Continuous research, education, and outreach efforts are warranted to promote localized development, adoption, and implementation of soil health assessment and management.

scholarly journals Bayesian approach for sample size determination, illustrated with Soil Health Card data of Andhra Pradesh (India)

Geoderma ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 405 ◽  
pp. 115396
Author(s):  
D.J. Brus ◽  
B. Kempen ◽  
D. Rossiter ◽  
Balwinder-Singh ◽  
A.J. McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Bayesian Approach ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Sample Size Determination ◽  
Size Determination ◽  
Health Card

scholarly journals Soil Health Card Adoption Behaviour among Beneficiaries of Bhoochetana Project in Andhra Pradesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 5588 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Raghavendra Chowdary ◽  
Ravi Kumar Theodore
Keyword(s):  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Health Card

scholarly journals Awareness and Knowledge Regarding Soil Testing and Utility Perception of Soil Health Card

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 329-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.G. Patel ◽  
Y.C. Lakum ◽  
Aakash Mishra ◽  
J.H. Bhatt
Keyword(s):  
Soil Health ◽  
Soil Testing ◽  
Health Card ◽  
Utility Perception

Current Status of Ground Water Arsenic Contamination in India and Recent Advancements in Removal Techniques from Drinking Water

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Mishra ◽  
Sanjay Dwivedi ◽  
Amit Kumar ◽  
Jürgen Mattusch ◽  
R.D. Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Ground Water ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
South India ◽  
North India ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
The Government

India is consisting of 29 states and 7 union territories, including a national capital, Delhi. Elevated concentrations (>10 g l ) of arsenic (As) in ground water (GW)  -1 of many states of India have become a major concern in recent years. Up to now about 0.2 million GW samples have been analyzed for As contamination from all over India by various researchers and Government agencies. About 90% of these cover only the Eastern part of India while several states and UTs are still unexplored. However, from the available data, GW of eighteen Indian states and three union territories has been found to be As contaminated to different extents through natural or anthropogenic origin. Among these, As >300 μg l has been reported from at least one locality from fourteen states. The -1 maximum level of As (7350 μg l ) in GW has been reported from a highly industrialized -1 area, Patancheru in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh. However, the gravity of problem is more in West Bengal followed by Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Five out of eight North-Eastern states are also affected by As contamination. Manipur is ranked first and Assam as second followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Nagaland. The GW in these regions is naturally As enriched, and therefore wide spatial distribution of As has been found in these areas. In North India, Punjab and Haryana and in South India, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are suffering with GW As contamination. Low level of As (up to 17 μg l ) has also -1 been reported in Tamil Nadu from South India. Many of the states like Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Odisha, Gujrat, Kerala, Telengana, Goa etc. are still unexplored for GW As contamination. Thus, according to current reports out of 640 districts in India, 141 are As affected (As >10 g l-1), among them 120 are above 50 g l-1. Considering its severity, the issue of As contamination in drinking water has been taken up by the Government of India and mitigation efforts are being initiated. In order to provide safe drinking water, different agencies/ organizations have developed eco-friendly, cost effective devices/ filtration techniques having higher As removal capacity. Here we elucidated the current status of GWAs contamination in different states of India and the new developments of mitigation options.

Inter-State Water Disputes in South India

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leela Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Scientific Scholarship ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Federal Structure

Water-related disputes in India have been a fraught area of contestation between state governments in the post-colonial period. Since the late 20th century, much of this conflict has been centered on mechanisms of legal adjudication both through the centralized state machinery of tribunals set up by the central government and by legal suits brought by states before the Supreme Court. Formal records of tribunal and court judgments provide skeletal accounts of legal claims, technical evidence, and judiciary responses between unitary state governments with hardened positions and conflicting interests. Tamil Nadu, a lower riparian state is reliant on water-sharing arrangements and the shared management of water-related infrastructure with its three neighboring states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala. The water-related agreements that link Tamil Nadu with its neighbors vary in significant ways in terms of the scope of the agreements, the kinds of issues under contention, the political dynamics of the agreement, and the outcome and implementation of each of the agreements. Political, institutional, and agential dimensions of state action are both shaped and constrained by historical structures of political economy. Both centralized structures of the colonial state and the political economy of India’s planned developmental state shape this set of interstate water negotiations and disputes that weigh on the states that share water resources and infrastructure in Southern India. While historical processes have produced the structural conditions that have shaped such disputes, recent policies of liberalization have intensified conflicts over water. For instance, processes of urbanization and city-centric models of growth have increased pressures on water resources in India. Social scientific scholarship that has focused on the politics of economic reforms and on the ways in which reforms have been shaped by India’s federal structure has tended to treat states as discrete entities. Such scholarship has analyzed the impact of India’s federal structure on reforms through a focus on relationships between states and the central government. While this has produced a heightened focus on the significance of federalism in the post-liberalization period, such work has paid less attention to relationships between states. The focus of such social scientific scholarship on particular sectors of the economy (such as telecom, electricity, and land/real estate) that are visibly associated with reform policies has compounded this analytical gap. Unlike such sectors, water is not contained within the territorial boundaries of states. A historical perspective on water disputes provides a means for unsettling the conventional analytical boundaries of political scientific conceptions of federalism in the post-liberalization period.

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