Impact of soil health card on productivity of selectedcrops of Dharwad district of Karnataka

Abstract

The study was conducted in Dharwad district of Karnataka. Out of 5taluks, two taluks namely Dharwad and Navalagund were purposivelyselected and from each taluk, three villages were selected based onmaximum number of soil health cards distributed to the farmers undersoil health card scheme. The total soil health card distribution inDharwad district is (32,361). Among the different taluks of Dharwad,Navalgund (8695) recorded highest SHC distribution followed byDharwad (7453), Kalghatgi (6781), Kundagol (5136) followed byHubballi (4296). Paired ‘t’ test was used to know the impact of soilhealth card on productivity of crops and cropping pattern. The resultsrevealed that significant increase in productivity of cotton, soybeanand chickpea crops (q/ha) after soil health card distribution in Dharwadtaluk. Similarly, significant increase in productivity of cotton, greengram and maize crops (q/ha) were observed after soil health carddistribution in Navalgund taluk