%0 Book Section
%A Chander, G
%A Dixit, S
%A Sawargaonkar, G
%B Mapping the Nutrient Status of Odisha’s Soils
%C Hyderabad
%D 2020
%E Dixit, S
%E Mishra, P K
%E Muthukumar, M
%E Reddy, K M
%E Padhee, A K
%E Mishra, A
%F icrisat:11938
%I ICRISAT
%K Soil Fertility, Nutrition
%N 1
%P 1-6
%T Bhoochetana: Reviving Soils for Agriculture
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/11938/
%X The Bhoochetana program in Karnataka, India, has been one of the initial exemplar attempts at scaling-out  best practices in reviving soils on a large scale involving thousands of farmers in the state. The stagnant  to declining growth of the agriculture sector in Karnataka between 2000 and 2008 demanded a multipronged  strategy to revive agriculture. Given the alarming situation, in 2009 the state initiated measures  to address soil health through a state-wide, flagship program called Bhoochetana. The program was  designed to get the state’s agriculture back on track by increasing crop productivity and strengthening  agriculture-based livelihoods.