Consider the following statements: 1.The nation-wide Soil Health Card Scheme aims at expanding the cultivable area under irrigation. 2.enabling the banks to assess the quantum of loans to be granted to farmers on the basis of soil quality. 3.checking the

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Q: 72 (IAS/2017)
Consider the following statements:
1.The nation-wide ‘Soil Health Card Scheme’ aims at expanding the cultivable area under irrigation.
2.enabling the banks to assess the quantum of loans to be granted to farmers on the basis of soil quality.
3.checking the overuse of fertilizers in farmlands.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?

question_subject: 

Economics

question_exam: 

IAS

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{'soil health card scheme': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'farmlands': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'fertilizers': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'irrigation': [1, 1, 0, 2], 'soil quality': [0, 0, 0, 1], 'farmers': [1, 3, 8, 26], 'loans': [1, 1, 4, 14], 'banks': [5, 6, 5, 25], 'cultivable area': [0, 0, 0, 1]}

The Soil Health Card Scheme is a government initiative in India which aims to provide every farmer with a Soil Health Card. These cards carry crop-wise recommendations of nutrients and fertilizers required for farms, which helps in checking the overuse of fertilizers.

Option 1 suggests that the program aims to expand the cultivable area under irrigation. This is not accurate. The program`s purpose is not about expansion of the irrigated area but assessing the health of the soil.

Option 2 suggests that the program is for enabling banks to assess the quantum of loans to be granted to farmers on the basis of soil quality. However, the scheme is not intended to assist banks in loan allocation decisions, it`s aimed at helping farmers understand their soil better.

Option 3 which is `checking the overuse of fertilizers in farmlands` is correct. This is one of the primary objectives of the Soil Health Card Scheme.

Option 4 incorrectly combines all the statements, and as we have seen, only one of them is correct.

The correct answer is `3 only`.