_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: anandsoil@gmail.com; Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology 40(4): 98-104, 2021; Article no.CJAST.65627 ISSN: 2457-1024 (Past name: British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, Past ISSN: 2231-0843, NLM ID: 101664541) Assessment of Soil Fertility Status of Kanwara Minor Lift Canal Command Area in Banda District of Bundelkhand using Nutrient Index Values Chandrakant Chaubey 1 , A. K. Chaubey 1* , Amit Mishra 1 , Narendra Singh 2 , Gaurav Shukla 3 and Sanjay Kumar 4 1 Science and Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda, India. 2 Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda, India. 3 Department of Statistics, College of Agriculture, BUAT, Banda, India. 4 Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Forestry, BUAT, Banda, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/CJAST/2021/v40i431299 Editor(s): (1) Dr. Alessandro Buccolieri, Università del Salento, Italy. Reviewers: (1) María Elena Sánchez-Pardo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México. (2) Neimar de Freitas Duarte, Federal Institute of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sdiarticle4.com/review-history/65627 Received 02 January 2021 Accepted 04 March 2021 Published 03 April 2021 ABSTRACT A study was conducted to assess the fertility status of Kanwara minor lift canal command area using Nutrient Index values of different soil parameters under study in 2019-20. A systematic set of two hundred and eleven georeferenced soil samples were collected and analysed following the standard sampling and analytical procedure. The analysed values of different parameters were categorized in low, medium and high and further used in determination of the nutrient index. NI value of soil organic carbon was 1.16, 1.00 for available N, 1.47 for available P and 2.55 for available K respectively. Regarding the fertility class based on Nutrient Index values it was deficient in organic carbon, available N and available P while, sufficient in soil available K. This requires immediate attention towards the management of nutrients to restore the soil fertility and sustain crop productivity. Original Research Article