Question- At which of the following places did the Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Radha Mohan Singh launched the Soil Health Card (SHC) Mobile App?
(a) Suratgarh
(b) Jhajjar
(c) New Delhi
(d) Ambala
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:
- On December 5th, 2017, on the occasion of World Soil Day, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shri Radha Mohan Singh launched the Soil Health Card (SHC) Mobile App.
- He started this app at the Agricultural Science Center, Jhajjar, Haryana.
- This app works like other Geotagging apps developed for the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana.
- The app contains farmers’ details including name, Aadhaar card number, mobile number, gender, address, crop details, etc.
- It is note worthy that in India, Soil Health Card scheme was launched in February 2015 in Rajasthan.
- The Minister said that Soil Health Card mobile App has been launched today to help the farmers.
- The app will benefit field-level workers as it will automatically capture GIS coordinates while registering sample details at the time of sample collection in the field and indicate the location from where the sample has been collected.
- The Minister informed that in the first phase (2015-17) 100 million SHCs have been distributed so far.
- The aim of the Ministry is to provide SHC to all 120 million farm holdings by December, 2017. The second phase began on May 1, 2017, and will continue for the year 2017 to 2019.
- Soil Health Card is prepared in 14 local languages and distributed to the farmers.
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