Celebrating a Decade of Soil Health Cards ...

The Soil Health Card Scheme was introduced by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 19th February, 2015 at Suratgarh, Rajasthan. The scheme was launched to assist State Governments to issue soil health ...

Move over chickpeas and lentils, there's a new legume in town! Pigeon pea is the latest superfood making waves in vegetarian ...

Can you survive just on water and without food? No, right? That’s the same with plants. They consume the nutrients in the soil which need to be replenished from time to time. You can use a seaweed ...

With a vast repository of soil and farmer data now being geo-tagged, the SHC platform has the potential to serve as the ...

The Soil Health Card Scheme, launched in 2015, provides farmers with detailed soil assessments and nutrient recommendations to improve soil fertility and crop productivity.

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

Aside from the abundant sources of macronutrients, it provides eight selected strains of endo and ecto mycorrhizae - which are extremely beneficial soil microbes. Those microbes will break down ...

Salinity has been an enemy of agriculture for millennia because even though many crops can withstand low to moderate salt ...

University of Wisconsin professor of soil science Jingyi Huang and data scientist Maria Oros worked over the summer on a new ...

Even though February might not scream gardening season, it’s the perfect time to prepare your spring garden for a vibrant ...

With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. The main water ...