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Which of the following options most accurately reflects the operational sampling design and cycle of the Soil Health Card Scheme?
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- 1The scheme is restricted strictly to large-scale commercial tea and coffee plantations, excluding smallholder foodgrain farms from sampling.
- 2The scheme relies entirely on self-reporting and estimation by farmers without laboratory analysis, prescribing a uniform chemical dosage across districts.
- 3Soil samples are drawn on a grid basis of 2.5 hectares in irrigated areas and 10 hectares in rainfed areas, tested for 12 parameters (macro, secondary, micro-nutrients, pH, and organic carbon), with cards updated every 3 years.✓
- 4Soil samples are collected only once in a farmer's lifetime with testing strictly limited to Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium.
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Soil samples are drawn on a grid basis of 2.5 hectares in irrigated areas and 10 hectares in rainfed areas, tested for 12 parameters (macro, secondary, micro-nutrients, pH, and organic carbon), with cards updated every 3 years.
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