2016 Soil Health Card Mobile application User Manual National Informatics Centre
Contents Contents...2 1 Introduction...3 2 Starting Application...4 3 Logging in to the Application...4 4 Farmer Details...7 5 Land Details...10 6 Crop Details...14 7 Available Fertilizers...19 8 Review and Submit...23 9 Dashboard...25 10Test Result Entry...26 11 Notifications...26
1. Introduction Soil health Card (SHC) Scheme is a Government of India s scheme promoted by the Department of Agriculture, Co-operation & Farmers Welfare under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare. It is being implemented through the States and Union Territory Governments. A Soil Health Card gives soil nutrient status to each farmer for his land holding and also gives advice on fertilizers dosage and needed soil amendments that he should apply to maintain soil health in the long run. Soil Health Card will be issued to all landholders every three years and this will enable to capture the pattern of soil fertility changes occurring due to nutrient uptake by plants or other natural causes. This will also help to take up corrective measures on the soil nutrient deficiencies identified in soil health cards. NIC has designed and developed a Web based Workflow Application (Soil Health Card Application) to generate Soil Health Card in a uniform format throughout the country. The Application Portal (http://soilhealth.dac.gov.in) was launched by Hon ble Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare on 15th July 2015. Soil Samples are collected from fields of farmers on Grid basis-10 ha grid in rain-fed areas and 2.5 ha grid in irrigated areas. The samples details along with their location details are registered in the Application portal by the concerned officials and a unique Sample ID is generated for each soil sample. The samples are tested in the labs and the test results are entered by the respective Soil Testing Lab officials. Based on the available nutrients in the soil, the crop-wise required quantity of nutrients are calculated using Soil Testing Crop Response formulae developed by ICAR method or General Fertilizer Recommendations given by State Governments /SAUs (State Agricultural Universities. Then according to required nutrients, corresponding crop-wise Fertilizer Quantities are calculated by the application and printed in the Soil Health Card. To further simplify the data entry work for Sample registration, NIC has designed and developed the android mobile phone application for Soil Health Card. This application is easy to operate and captures Latitude and Longitude automatically when Location is on. The farmer details, land details, crop details and fertilizers details can be entered using this mobile app. This document gives the operational instructions for using the mobile app.
Pre requisite Unknown Source security to be enabled in the smart phone Steps to be followed to enable Unknown Sources: Click Security Button on menu. Then select the Security tab. It will show the Security Settings window. Select the enable radio button for Unknown Sources, It will prompt a dialog box asking Your phone and personal data are more vulnerable to attack by app from Unknown sources you agree that you are solely responsible for any damage to your phone or loss of data that may result from using these apps? Click OK. Google Indic key board download: Google Indic Keyboard allows you to type messages, update on soil health card mobile app in your own native language on your Android phone. Download Google Indic key board from google play store How can you enable it and set it as the default keyboard? - On Android 5.x and newer versions: Open Settings -> Language & Input, under KEYBOARD & INPUT METHODS section, go to Current Keyboard -> Choose Keyboards -> Check Google Indic Keyboard -> back to Language & input -> Current Keyboard -> Select English & Indic Languages (Google Indic Keyboard) When typing in an input box, you can also change the default input method by clicking the keyboard icon on the bottom right corner of the screen. When typing in an input box, you can also change the default input method by selecting Choose input method in the Notification area. Installation Process User can download or install Application directly from the Soli Health Card Site Then click on downloaded.apk file. It will run installation process. After successful installation it will ask to open this application. When we will click on open application icon, it will go to the application page. After few minutes of buffer it will take you to the login page where user could login through valid credentials.
2. Opening the Application To open the Soil Health Card Mobile application follow the steps given below: 1. Click on Soil Health Card icon on application menu. 2. On clicking the Soil Heath Card icon, the application starts and display the following page. 3. After clicking the Continue button provided at the bottom, Login Page is displayed.
3.Logging in to the Application 1. Give login and password and click the Login button. 2. O n c l i c k i n g t h e L o g i n button, the application validates the information. The master code directories are downloaded based on login information and application is made ready for the user. This takes some time for the first time as masters are updated from server to mobile app. 3. If the login is successful and Dashboard is displayed as given below
4. The dashboard contains the following icons. Each of these icon is a link to the respective section: Farmer Details Land Details Crop Details Available Fertilizers Review and Submit Dashboard Test Result Entry Notifications 5. Menu page which provide option to update new back-up of database and other options
4. Farmer Details 1. Click the Farmer details Icon on dashboard. The following page will open - 1. After entering the valid information in the form, the form can be saved. 2. Enter the name of the Farmer. 3. Enter Name of the Farmer in the local language and there is an option of change language on suggested keyboard 4. Check on the composite button if there are multiple values to be entered. 5. Select Sub district from drop down list 6. Select Village from Drop Down list.
7. Select Block From Drop Down List. 8. Enter the Pin Number.
9. Enter Aadhaar Number. 10. Enter Mobile Number. 11. Enter Address. 12. Enter Address in the local Language. 13. After Entering all the above values click the Save Button following page will open. 5. Land Details For entering the details in Land detail icon: 1. Click the Land details Icon on dashboard. The following page will open:
2. After entering the information in the form, the form can be saved. 3. Enter the survey number. 4. Enter the Khasra Number /Dag Number. 5. Select Soil Type from drop down list.
6. Select Topology from drop Down List. 7. Select Farm Size. 8. Select Unit in which Farm size is given.
9. Select Irrigation Facility from drop down list. 10. Select Irrigation Source from drop down list. 11. After Entering all the above values click the Save Button following page will open.
6. Crop Details For entering the Crop detail - 1. Select the Crop details Icon on dashboard. The following page will open:
2. After entering the information in the form, the form can be saved. 3. Select the Crop Group from drop down list. 4. Select the Crop From drop down list. 5. Select the Variety from drop down list.
6. Select Duration from drop down list. 7. Enter the reference yield in the given field. 8. Select the Unit for reference yield from drop down list.
9. Enter the area under cultivation in the given field. 10. Select the Unit for Area under cultivation from drop down list. 11. If crop details are to be added for next crop, then click ADD button and repeat the same procedure. Please note that only Crop field is mandatory. All other fields are optional.
12. After entering information of all crops, click save button to save the information. 13. After Clicking Save Button the following page will open - 7. Available Fertilizers For entering the Fertilizers details, Click the Available Fertilizers icon. The page will be displayed as given below -
1. Select Nitrogen Fertilizer from drop down list. 2. Select Phosphorous Fertilizer from drop down list.
3. Select potassium Sulphate from drop down list. 4. Select Complex Fertilizer from drop down list.
5. Select appropriate Straight Fertilizer from the drop down list. 6. Select one more appropriate Straight Fertilizer from the drop down list.
7. Select Organic fertilizer from drop down list. 8. After selecting all values, click the Save Button. The following page will open-
8. Review and Submit Review and Submit button works for reviewing the data entered and for submitting that data finally for further procedure. Clicking the submit button Save the Data entered in Farmer fields, Land Fields, Crop Fields, Available Fertilizers fields and shows it to the dashboard.
9. Dashboard Dashboard button is provided to view data entered in the app for soil health Card. For Eg.
After submission of data there is an option or plus button to collect composite sample for other farmers and on every submission there will be a tick mark for next composite sample form option which will be discontinued on untick of button above farmer Name. There are two approach to exit from the application: First Approach: We need to hit back button twice this will help us to get exit from the application but we will remain logged-in in the application Second Approach: We need to select menu and hit log-out button, It will help us to get log-out from the application and we need to fill-up login credentials again to get login in the application 10. Notification It is an information platform: If there is any information related to soil health card for the users, then that can be notified here. ***