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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. 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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