‘Soil analysis can help enhance production’
Impact of food security is growing concern among farmers. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
Agriculture experts have advised farmers to get their soil samples analysed from laboratories set up at the district level as it will enable them to prepare the land in accordance with the crop and soil needs for obtaining a higher yield.
In a statement issued by the media liaison unit of Punjab Agriculture Department, experts said that soil analysis can unveil necessary information like salinity, crop access to nitrogen, micro-nutrients including potash, zinc and boron, presence of organic material, PH value of soil and availability of gypsum.
This useful information can help farmers apply only the needed quantity of fertilisers and micro-nutrients and adopt proper measures to get good production, they said.
Giving tips on how to collect the sample from a field for analysis, experts said that farmers should collect samples from different parts of the field and then mix them to get a compound sample.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 12th, 2020.