The Soil Health Card gives information on how many soil nutrient parameters.

🔑 Key Points
→ Soil Health Card Scheme: The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare introduced the scheme on December 5, 2015.
→ Soil Health Card (SHC) is a printed report that contains the nutrient status of soil with respect to 12 nutrients: pH, Electrical Conductivity (EC), Organic Carbon (OC), Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K), Sulphur (S), Zinc (Zn), Boron (B), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), and Copper (Cu) of farm holdings.
→ SHC is provided to all farmers in the country at an interval of 3 years to enable the farmers to apply recommended doses of nutrients based on soil test values to realize improved and sustainable soil health and fertility, low costs, and higher profits.
→ Farmers can track their soil samples and also obtain their Soil Health Card report.
→ It is a field-specific detailed report of soil fertility status and other important soil parameters that affect crop productivity.