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Effectiveness of Soil Testing in Increasing Agricultural Production

Volume : 62
Issue: Oct-dec
Pages: 637 - 640
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Abstract


The findings showed that the majority of the soil samples were collected by the village Level Works (V.L.W.) -and sent to Soil Testing Labouratories (S.T.L.)for analysis through the Bllocks.But the results of the analysis -received from the S.T.L.were communicated only to 3.5 per cent of the respondents and that too with inordi- nate delay.Among those who had recived the results only two-fifths adopted the S.T.L.recomendations.The adoption percentage was in no way better in the case of respondents who personally that by following the S.T.L.recommendations tthere is a possibility to increase the yield of food crops upto 30 per cent and the yield of cotton upto 33.3 per cent over the normal yields.

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637 - 640
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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