Soil Health Card Flashcards

1
Q

World Soil Day is on?

A

5th December

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2
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Soil Health Card Scheme is by?

A

MoAFW

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3
Q

Tagline of Soil Health Card is?

A

Swastha Dhara, Khet Hara

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4
Q

Soil Health Card has completed how many years now? When was it launched?

A

9 years
2015

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5
Q

A scheme that aims to give each farmer soil nutrient states of their holdings and advise them on the dosage of fertilisers as well as suggest soil ammendments

A

Soil Health Card (SHC)

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6
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Village level soil testing labs will be set up by?

A

Youth with education in agriculture
Women SHGs
FPOs, etc

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7
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Currently 1 sample is collected for every ___ ha of irrigated land

A

2.5 ha

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8
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1 sample is collected for every ___ ha for rainfed lend

A

10 ha

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9
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An IoT based automated portable device by the government that tests soil sample for the 12 essential parameters and generates digital soil health card

A

Bhuvision Portal or Krishi Rasta Soil Testing System

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10
Q

Bhuvision or Krishi Rasta Soil Testing System is an initiative of?

A

ICAR-IIRR & Krishi Tantra

Indian Institute of Rice Research - Hyderabad

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11
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Where is ICAR-IIRR (Indian Institute of Rice Research) located?

A

Hyderabad

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12
Q

SHC is a part of which scheme?
When were they merged?

A

RKVY - under ‘Soil Health & Fertility’
In 2022-23

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13
Q

How many nutrients are tested in SHC scheme under RKVY?

A

12 nutrients

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14
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What are the 12 nutrients tested in SHC?

A

Macro Nutrients: N, P, K
Secondary Nutrients: S
Micro-Nutrients: Zn, Fe, Cu, Mn, Bo
Electrical Conductivity (EC)
pH
Organic Carbon (OC)

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15
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Frequency of Soil Testing in SHC

A

once in 2 years

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16
Q

4 initiative have been inaugurated by the MoAFW & ____ under SHC

A

MoRD

17
Q

What are the 4 initiatives by MoAFW & MoRD

A
  1. Revamped Soil Health Card Portal & Mobile Application
  2. School Health Nutrient Programme
  3. Krishi Sakhi Convergence Programme
  4. Central Fertilizer Quality Control & Training Institute (CFQCTI) Portal
18
Q

QR code based soil sample collection system, equipped with GIS analytics, workable in online or offline mode

A

Revamped Soil Health Card Portal & Mobile Application

19
Q

In the Revamped Soil Health Card Portal & Mobile Application labs are equiped with GIS analytics for?

A
  1. Showing real-time data of soil sample collection
  2. Show status of labs
  3. Show SHC (through sms or by entering mobile number on portal)
20
Q

Which initiative in SHC by the MoAFW is in collboration with NABARD?

A

School Soil Helath Programme

21
Q

Which SHC initiative is a convergence between MoAFW and DAY-NRLM?

A

Krishi Sakhi Convergence Programme

21
Q

What is the role of NABARD in school soil health programme?

A

To set up soil labs in schools
10 labs were set up in 20 KVs and NVs in rural areas - will be scaled up to 1000 now

22
Q

Who are Catalysts of transformation in SHC in rural agriculture?

A

Krishi Sakhi

23
Q

Krishi Sakhi’s are?

A
  1. Agricultural guides
  2. Farmers
  3. Farmer’s Friend
  4. Community Resource
  5. Awareness Creators
24
Q

The CFQCTI Portal has been introduced in SHC to?

A

For fertilizer sample collection at port and its testing through OTP/SMS system

25
Q

Fertilizer Control Order is a legal order issued by the government of India under which Act?

A

Essential Commodities Act

26
Q

Full form of CFQCTI portal?

A

Central Ferilize Quality Control & Training Insitute

27
Q

SBM G SBM 2.0 were launched in which year?

A

2nd October 2014
2021

28
Q

A village sustaining it’s ODF status, has access to a gender separate functional toilet in all essential places, with either SWM or LWM

A

ODF + Aspiring

29
Q

A village sustaining it’s ODF status, has access to a gender separate functional toilet in all essential places, with both SWM and LWM

A

ODF + Rising

30
Q

A village sustaining it’s ODF status, has access to a gender separate functional toilet in all essential places, with both SWM & LWM, is visually clean and shows IEC messages

A

ODF+ Model

31
Q

States and UT that have achieved ODF + Model status?

A

Sikkim, lakshadweep, D&D and D&N Haveli