Soil Health Awareness programme was organized with Agricultural Department at South Poigainallur village of Nagapattinam block on behalf of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nagapattinam on 16th Feb 2020 to create awareness on Soil Health Card and importance of biofertilizers to improve crop productivity. The Programme Coordinator incharge Dr. K. Chandrasekar SMS Plant Protection, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nagapattinam welcomed the gatherings and brief about the importance of Soil health card.

The Deputy Director Agriculture, headed the programme and insisted the villagers to apply fertilizers based on the levels of soil fertility. The Assistant Director incharge Dr. A. Lawrance, narrated the importance of soil and activities of agriculture department towards soil testing and soil heath card distribution in his Special address. The Senior Agriculture officer, Balasubramanian Soil testing Laboratory addressed the gathering to get soil health cards to found their soil fertility.

During the technical session, Dr. V. Kannan, SMS (Agronomy) delivered the lectures on Soil health importance, Soil sampling and Reclamation of affected soils. The methods of Soil sampling to farmers were also demonstrated in the programme. Totally 52 farmers and 8 extension personnel were benefitted.