Duration | 01.07.2010 to 30.06.2013 |
Total Cost | 73.437 million |
Targets Achieved
- In this project whole Punjab was divided into 3 km x 3 km grid. In this way, total no. of grids was 28,162. The number of grids from which samples were taken is 19,153 as 9009 grids were under cities, rivers, and sand dunes.
- Total number of samples collected were 72,241. Each sample was analyzed for 6 characteristics i.e. Texture, Electrical Conductivity (EC), pH, Organic Matter (%), available P (ppm) and extractable K (ppm).
- Development of Spatial Database for soil-climate suitability for Crops, vegetables and fruits
- An enterprise level GIS System for soil and water analysis was developed
- Web portal for information sharing for agricultural community researcher’s, extension workers, farming community, decision and policy makers.