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WWW.JUSTAGRICULTURE.IN WWW.JUSTAGRICULTURE.IN SOIL HEALTH CARD - A SAVIOUR FOR FARMER .......................................................................................... 8-11 HOMA FARMING–A Healing Fire For Agriculture....................................................................................... 60-63 Sakshi shastri and Dr. Anandita Saha Jagriti Thakur Impact of COVID-19 (Corona Virus) On Indian Agriculture: A Review................................................ 12-13 Profits in Organic Farming: Concept and Success Stories.................................................................... 64-65 Sanjeev and Dr. Shilpa Kaushal Kartik Rana Post-Harvest Handling of Garlic ................................................................................................................... 14-17 The Digital Agriculture..................................................................................................................................... 66-67 Dr. ManinderKaur and Dr. Ramandeep Kaur Hiteshvari V. Korat Environmental Impact of Irrigation In Indian Agriculture ................................................................... 18-21 FARM OPERATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER............................................................................................................ 68-70 Arvind Kumar, Vikas Sharma and Dr. Ashish Dwivedi Mohit Bharadwaj Metabolomics in Animals................................................................................................................................ 22-23 A Pond’s Story from ‘Dusk To Dawn’ ............................................................................................................ 72-73 Dr. Anshu Rahal Palwinder Singh, Sarvpriya Singh and A P S Dhaliwal Panchagavya-An organic weapon against plant pathogens............................................................... 24-25 Son of a Farmer’s Family Qualified Odisha PSC ...................................................................................... 74-75 Pandya Srushti K, Thanki Disha M. and Samarth.A.Kaluskar Abhishek Dehal Effective Treatment of Bovine Mastitis with Herbal Medicines: An Alternative to Agriculture Students Cracked UPSC 2019: Success Stories That Can Inspire You ......................... 76-79 Antibiotics............................................................................................................................................................ 26-28 Himani Gautam Shrinivas Wattamwar and Navneet Kaur Vohra Digitizing Indian Agriculture........................................................................................................................... 29 Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, Mehraj U Din Dar and Mohmad Amin Bhagat Medicinal and Nutritional properties of Dragon fruit (Hylocereus spp.)........................................ 30-31 Akash Shukla and Arun Kumar Verma Soilless Media Cultures:-A Propitious Auxiliary for Crop Production in Horticulture ................ 32-35 Dr. V. K. Tripathi and Ankur Sharma Use of Drones in Agriculture: An Eye in the Sky...................................................................................... 36-39 Rishabh Satija Nutritional and Medicinal values of Tamarind.......................................................................................... 40-41 Khushboo Tandon and Dr. P.K.S. Gurjar Plasma therapy: a potent tool against CORONA VIRUS ......................................................................... 42-43 Sneha Upreti Impact of COVID – 19 on Horticulture.......................................................................................................... 44-49 Anis Kumar Elemental Analyzer (CHNS)............................................................................................................................... 50-53 Manohar Lal and Ashok Choudhary Zero Budget Natural Farming : A New Appraisal...................................................................................... 54-55 Ankur Savaliya, Dhrupal Pansuriya and Harsh Delvadiya Farm Mechanization - The Swadeshi Silent Revolution ........................................................................ 56-59 P. Oral Roberts WWW.JUSTAGRICULTURE.IN WWW.JUSTAGRICULTURE.IN From the From the Founder desk of North India's First Agriculture E-Magazine Editor’s desk Chief Editor www.justagriculture.in Dear Readers, Founder Editor It is the great pleasure moment for me to The last six months in Indian Agriculture have witnessed The word “Just Agriculture” D.P.S. BADWAL paradoxical circumstances. Amid the COVID crisis, introduce all of you with the agriculture signifies the prominence Editor-in-chief besides the uncertainty in health, economy and others sectors, given to the agriculture field magazine “Just Agriculture”. In my concern Mohit Bharadwaj Agriculture is the only bright spot with spike of 3% growth and other allied sciences in this magazine just agriculture will provide sector in India. The Inter-Ministerial Committee has the today’s era. Our magazine you innovative research and recent trends of Chief. Managing Editor Dr. Mayank Chaturvedi target of Doubling the Farmer’s Income (DFI) by 2022 which offers sufficient platform and various field of agriculture. uplift the agriculture sector and enormous e–commerce and broad coverage for In this magazine we will consider all the Executive Editor agribusiness models have started during this pandemic period. agriculture researchers and concern article related to agronomy, plant Ankur Sharma The young professionals understand the potential of this sector. scientists for deliberating genetics & breeding, plant pathology, Regional Editor So, during this COVID, education and publishing sector connecting throughout India agriculture chemistry and soil, agriculture Abhishek Dehal effected. It will be difficult for the academicians to publish and and globally. get innovative knowledge about agriculture specialisation. For the agriculture students biotechnology and biochemistry, veterinary Assistant Editor So being as Young Agriculture Professional, I think about endowed with inquisitive and Animal husbandry and other related fields Himani Gautam starting an e-magazine which provides platform to bound all the mind and driven by of agriculture. As the chief editor I insure that Technical Head agriculture students, scholars and research oriented people. professional goals, this you will get all the recent trends, development Sahil Saini We are glad to introduce the first magazine will be a voyage of and innovative idea’s in this magazine. issue of JUST AGRICULTURE Senior Graphic Designer discovery. e-Magazine, which also happens Finally, I would like to thank the editorial and Arya Maan to be our first online publication. reviewer’s team, authors as well as Keep Reading…. Carrying forward our vision publishers and team members for of starting this agriculture contributing to this first issue. Editors will *All rights are reserved throughout the world, e-magazine is to engage all the welcome all constructive criticisms as well as reproduction in any manner are prohibited. agriculture students, scholars new suggestions to improve the quality of the All copyright, trademarks and all other intellectual and research oriented people and magazine. property rights in the just agriculture magazine and to increase the writing capacity its content (including without limitation the of agriculture students. Our magazine design, text, graphics and source codes magazine features about agri connected with the website) are owned by or licensed to www.justagriculture.in or otherwise used by innovations, farm ventures and www.justagriculture.in as permitted by law. agribusiness, success stories of (All photographs are used for illustrative purpose progressive farmers in India are D.P.S. BADWAL Mohit Bharadwaj only, Just Agriculture takes no responsibility for innovating conventional practices Founder Editor, Editor-in-Chief unsolicated photographs or content) *All authors are responsible for plagiarism. to become successful farm JUST AGRICULTURE magazine Just Agriculture-the Magazine entrepreneurs. WWW.JUSTAGRICULTURE.IN WWW.JUSTAGRICULTURE.IN WWW.JUSTAGRICULTURE.IN WWW.JUSTAGRICULTURE.IN Importance of Soil Health Card SOIL HEALTH CARD - A SAVIOUR FOR FARMER A sum of Rs. 190/soil sample is given to State 1 2 A Soil Health Card is used to assess the current Governments, which covers the entire cost of Sakshi shastri and Dr. Anandita Saha status of soil health and when used over time to collection of sample, testing, generation and 1,2 Deptt. of Agri. Extension, Visva-Bharati Univerity, Bolpur, determine changes in soil health that are affected by distribution of Soil Health Card to the farmers. West Bengal- 731 235 land management. Present Scenario of Soil Health Card Soil Health Card is basically a printed report that is given to a farmer for all his land or holdings. It contains he country wide application of soil health card "Swasth Dharaa. Khet Haraa." the status of soil considering 12 parameters - N, P, K has led to a decline in the use of chemical - Healthy Earth, Green Farm (Macro-nutrients), S (Secondary- nutrient), Zn, Fe, Cu, Tfertiliser by 10%. A study conducted by the Mn, Bo (Micronutrients) and pH, EC, OC. Based on National Productivity Council (NPC) says that India is now eyeing second Green Revolution in all this, the Soil Health Card will also specify fertilizer application of Soil Health Card recommendations eastern India. The need for enhanced investment in Soil Health Card Scheme recommendations
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