3 Web Portals Launched in Agriculture Sector: Highlights
3 Web Portals Launched in Agriculture Sector: Highlights
Question: The agriculture sector has received a boost with the launch of 3 web portals namely Soil Health Card portal, Fertiliser Quality Control System portal and Participatory Guarantee System-India Portal. Discuss the highlights of each of the portals.
Soil Health Card Portal
- This portal has been developed for registration of soil samples, record of test results of soil samples and creation of Soil Health Card alongside Fertiliser Recommendations
- This web based software is single, generic and uniform
- It is a workflow based application which has the following modules:
- Soil Samples Registration
- (Test Result Entry by Soil Testing Labs
- (Fertiliser Recommendations based on STCR and GFR
- Soil Health Card generation along with Fertiliser Recommendation and micronutrient suggestions
- MIS module for monitoring progress
- This software provides uniform adoption of codes and has a sample tracking feature which provides alerts to farmers regarding generation of soil health card and sample registration through SMS or email
- Soil health card portal will generate soil health cards based on STCR formula developed by ICAR/General Fertiliser Recommendations of state governments
Fertiliser Quality Control System Portal
- Fertiliser Quality Control system is a web-based, configurable workflow application developed by NIC for sample collection processing, testing and generation of analysis reports
- This portal will lead to automation of manual activities which determine the quality of fertilisers apart from helping with online tracking of the status of the sample
- System will gradually be extended to State Quality Control labs
- Fertilisers are important in catalysing agricultural productivity of the soil
Participatory Guarantee System – India Portal:
- Participatory Guarantee System certifies organic products which ensures agriculture production process in line with standards laid down for organic products
- Desired quality maintenance is being monitored
- This online quality assurance portal has the following facilities
I Registration
II Approval
III Documentation
IV Record of inspection and
V Certification.
- It will promote transparency in certification process.
- It will lead to creation of a database of (i) Organic producers and (ii) area under PGS certification with due traceability.
Facts and Stats
- India imports large quantity of various fertilisers to meet the demands.
- About 25-30% of the requirement of Urea, 90% of the requirement of DAP and 100% of the requirement of MOP are met by imports.
- These initiatives/portals will short-circuit the manual process for quality control
