A Study on Farmers’ Attitude towards Soil Health Card in Rangareddy District, Telangana State, India
Akula Latha Rani, S. Ganesamoorthi, N. S. Shivalinge Gowda, A. Sathish, T. L. Mohan Kumar
International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · pp. 1686–1697 · Published 20 Aug 2022
10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1131152Abstract
The Soil Health Card flagship programme has been implemented to address the national soil issues due to indiscriminate usage of synthetic fertilizers. An ex-post-facto-research design was employed in the study. The present study was conducted in Shabad and Kothur blocks of Rangareddy District of Telangana State during the year 2019-2020. Data were collected using standardized, pre-tested interviews and scored, tabulated and statistically analyse. Our investigation in Rangareddy District disclosed that the majority of respondents possessed a favourable attitude towards soil health cards and realized the importance of soil health and soil conservation management practices. The present work serves as a complementary contribution to the comprehensive study of the Farmers’ Attitude on Soil Health Card to maintain healthy soils to ensure the nation’s food and nutrition security. It was reported that the more than half of the interviewed farmers (52.50 %) were having more favourable attitude towards Soil Health Card, whereas 30.00 % and 17.50 % of them had favourable attitude and less favourable attitude towards Soil Health Card, respectively. The scale contained 16 statements each measured on a three-point continuum namely less favourable, favourable and more favourable. The possible score for farmers’ attitude towards soil health card ranged from the minimum of 16 to the maximum of 48. All the profile characteristics of farmers had significant influences on their attitudes. Indian Agriculture has been transformed from green revolution to evergreen revolution on a sustainable basis. By understanding farmers’ attitude towards Soil Health Card and the associated personal profile characteristics, the scheme could be further implemented with installing proper soil testing laboratories in consideration of farmers’ need and interest to double their income through distribution of soil health cards, reduced pest and disease incidences and improved soil health management practices.
Cited by 1
Pierre Marie Chimi, Karimou Ngamsou Abdel, Baruch Batamack Nkoué · 2025
Related research
- Prevalence of Hypertension among Diabetic Patients in Benghazi: A Study of Associated Factors — shares topic coverage
- The Prevalence of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) in a Private-University in Malaysia, and Its Associated Factors Including Stress, Depression and Anxiety — shares topic coverage
- Association of Bacteria with Fungal Infection of Skin and Soft Tissue Lesions in Plateau State, Nigeria — shares topic coverage
- Exploring the Relationship between Yield and Yield Attributing Traits in Advanced Breeding Lines of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) — shares topic coverage
- Association between Profile of the Respondent and Impact of Integrated Farming System in Terms of Change in Employment Generation — shares topic coverage
Article metrics
Real usage data collected on this platform.
0
Page views
0
PDF downloads
0
Outbound clicks
1
Citations
Views by country
Approximate, from request IP at view time — not citizenship or institution. Countries with fewer than 5 views are grouped as "Other".
No views recorded yet.
Traffic sources
Referring site, by host.
No traffic recorded yet.
Views and downloads exclude known bots/crawlers. Citations combines this platform's own DOI-resolved index with each external source's own reported total — see Cited by above for individually listed citing works. Last refreshed 0 seconds ago.