Programmes of the Department (State Plan)

SCHEMES UNDER STATE PLAN Soil Survey and Land Use Planning: The purpose of Soil Survey and Testing is to classify the land into various land capability classes so that the land can be placed to various uses such as agriculture, forestry, horticulture, agro-forestry and mixed land use system as per their capability. It involves multi-disciplinary and inter-related section viz. Soil Survey, Meteorology, Soil Testing, Cartography, Remote Sensing and Land Use Planning. Soil Survey (Soil Testing): The laboratory has also analyzed and issued soil testing report to several research scholars and farmers during 2020-21. Besides this the analysis of soil samples …

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Programmes of the Department (Earmarked Sector)

SCHEMES UNDER EARMARKED SECTOR Integrated Land Development under Negotiated Loan (ILD): – Land and Water are the most vital natural resources that provide the needs of the food, fiber, fuel etc. The State is confronted with a situation in which only soil has to be conserved but a sustainable infrastructural development that can give modification or alternative to shifting cultivation needs to be evolved to enable people to produce sufficient food grain for their sustenance, growth and wellbeing in addition to conservation of ecology and environment. One of the surest of achieving these objectives are to accept the land development …

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