Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Performance of Soil Testing Labortary of K.V.K., Kapurtahala, Punjab, India
Performance of Soil Testing Labortary of K.V.K., Kapurtahala, Punjab, India
Subject: Regarding the functioning of the soil and water testing labortary
of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kapurthala upto June 2010.
-----*--------
Respected Sir,
from your office regarding the functioning of the soil and water testing
laboratory, Kindly find enclosed the detail of the total number sample analysed
both free and charged@ Rs. 20 per sample by the soil and water testing
Year No of soil and water samples analyzed Amount obtained and submitted
by the Soil and water testing Lab of after analysing the samples @Rs
KVK., Kapurthala. 20 per sample
Fig: Graphical representation of performance of soil laboratory from 2006 to June 2010
Table no 2. No. of Soils and water samples analyzed by soil and water testing labortary
of KVK, Kapurthala free of cost
of cost
Table No. 3 Total number of soil and water samples analysed (By charging fee and free
of cost) from 2006 to june 2010.
Sr. No. Soil and water samples Samples analysed free of cost
analysed
1740
2. Samples analysed by charging
fee for analysis @Rs 20 per
sample
Soil and water testing laboratory is well functioning at KVK, Kapurthala. Starting
from the functioning of the lab to upto now we had analysed 1740/- samples (Soil and water)
and thus submit Rs. 34,800 = 00 to the higher quarters by charging Rs. 20 per sample as
analysing fee from the farmer. Instead of this, before conducting any FLD or any research
trial, the soil samples of demonstration plots are analyzed for knowing it’s inherent soil
fertility viz. pH, EC, Soil texture, O.C (%), K (Kg/ha) and P (Kg/ha free of cost and fertilizer
recommendations are made accordingly and in this regard upto now analyse 353 soil samples
free of cost for knowing the inherent fertility of the selected plot. Thus, a total of 2093
samples were analysed by this lab so far. We had also prepared the Soil Fertility Map of
KVK instructional farm after analyzing 100 soil samples (20 samples from 5 blocks). In
addition, 100 samples of adopted village viz. Blerkhanpur were analyzed free of cost. Soil
testing so far revealed that potash is now becoming to be a deficient nutrient in most of our
soils because of the continue removal of this nutrient in our paddy-wheat cropping system.
Organic carbon in 95% samples is in low range (<0.4%). As far phosphorus is concerned, it
is observed that 75% samples fell into low phosphorous category (available potash <5
kg/acre) and 25% came in the medium range (available potash 5-9 kg/acre). Further, it is
analysed that 60% of the soil samples of the farmers, whereas 74% of the selected Front
Line Demonstration Plots were low in potash. Thus, inherent fertility of soils is declining
day by day.