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With the ever increasing demand for increasing the productivity per unit area and the narrowing cost benefit ratio has made the farmer more sensitive to the soil fertility status and soil health. Focus on the existing soil testing methods used to test the soil all over the India. This paper is an integrated approach of formulating a complete and a balanced fertilizer recommendation was tested in the field with tomato as the crop. This soil test kit is enabling the farmer himself to do the analysis in field and apply fertilizers as per soil test value. This soil test kit has been formulated and fabricated in such a simple mode so that an illiterate farmer can also test his soil of his field.
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Annual report 2015. Ministry of Agricultural Government of India
Chopra S.L., Kanwar J.S. 2007. Analytical Agricultural Chemistry.
Howard LA, Wong AD, Perry AK, Klein BP 1999. Bcarotene and ascorbic acid retention in fresh and processed vegetables. J. Food Sci. 64(5):929-936.
Jeffery H, Brown AF, Kurilich AC, Keek AS, Matusheski N, Klein BP 2003. Variation in content of bioactive components in broccoli. Study review. J. Food Composition Anal. 16:323-330.
Kurilich AC, Tsau GJ, Brown A, Howard L, Klein BP, Jeffery EH 1999. Carotene, tocopherol and ascorbate contents in subspecies of Brassica oleracea. J. Agric. Food Chem. 47:1576-1581
Lisiewska Z, Kmiecik W 1996. Effects of level of nitrogen fertilizer, processing conditions and period of storage of frozen broccoli and cauliflower on vitamin C retention. Food Chem., 57(2):267-270.
Mehla, C. P., V. K. Srivastava. S. Jage. R. Mangat. J.Singh and M. Ram. 2000. Response of tomato varieties to N and P fertilization and spacing. Ind. J. Agri. Res. 34(3): 182-184.
Methods Manual 2011. Soil Testing in India, Department of Agriculture and Corporation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi, January,
Pandey, R. P., P. N. Solanki. R. K. Saraf and M. S Parihar. 1996. Effect of Nitrogen and Phosphorus on growth and yield of tomato varieties. Punjab Vege. Grower. 31: 1-5.
Sharma, K. C., A. K. Singh and S. K. Sharma, 1999. Studies on Nitrogen and Phosphorus requirement of tomato hybrids. Annals Agri. Res. 20 (4): 339-402.
Splittstoesser, W. E. 1990. Vegetable Growing Hand Book, Organic and Traditional Methods 3rd Ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. p. 5.
Tindall HD 1983. Vegetables in the Tropics. Macmillan Education Ltd. Houndmills Hampshire. p. 533.
Vallejo F, Tomas-Barberan FA, Garcia-Viguera C 2002. Potential bioactive compounds in health promotion from broccoli cultivars grown in Spain. J. Sci. Food Agric. 82:1293-1297.