In 2019-2020 the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare initiated a component of natural farming under Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) as Bharatiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP) in 8 States, which has been upscaled as “National Mission on Natural Farming” (NMNF) on 25.11.2024.

The area sanctioned in the country under the BPKP since 2020-21 is given below:

 

States	Area in Ha
Andhra Pradesh	100000
Chhattisgarh	85000
Kerala	84000
Himachal Pradesh	12000
Jharkhand	3400
Odisha	24000
Madhya Pradesh	99000
Tamil Nadu	2000
Total	409400

 

Training programme have been organized under BPKP. Details of training sessions/ work-shops/ conferences held/organized by the State and the beneficiary level data (details of small and marginal farmers) is maintained at the State level only.  

Government of Maharashtra State has not opted for natural farming under BPKP. However, following training has been conducted by Maharashtra under organic farming:

 

Training/ sessions name	No. of training
KVK level trainings	136
Village level trainings	442
Total	578

NMNF has been approved on 25.11.2024 for all States including Maharashtra.

The PKVY scheme provides end-to-end support to organic farmers i.e. from production to processing certification and marketing by a clusters approach. The primary focus of the scheme is to form organic clusters (other than NE states) to help them to create a value and supply chain with robust focus on marketing.

Under PKVY, States/UTs are provided financial assistance of Rs. 31500/ha for 3 years out of which, Rs. 15000/ha/3 years is provided directly to farmers through DBT for on-farm and off-farm organic inputs.  Financial assistance of Rs. 4500/ha for 3 years is provided for marketing, packaging, branding, value addition and other marketing initiatives.  Apart from this, Rs. 3000/ha for 3 years is provided for certification and residue analysis.  Under the scheme assistance is also provided @Rs. 9000/ha for 3 years for training and capacity building. 

Since 2015-16, under PKVY, 14.99 lakh ha area has been covered under organic farming by developing 52289 clusters involving 25.30 lakh farmers. In addition, 8 States have developed their own brands for organic products.  Since 2015-2016 to 2023-2024, Rs. 2170.30 crore has been released under the scheme.

The State-wise details of progress in terms of area covered, number of farmers benefitted and fund released under PKVY since 2015-16 to 2024-2025 as on 06.12.2024 is given below:

State-wise details of progress in terms of area covered, number of farmers benefitted and fund released under PKVY since 2015-16 to 2024-2025 as on 6.12.2024

S. No.	Name of the State	Area in ha.	Farmers	Fund Released to State (Rs in lakh.)
1	Andhra Pradesh	360805.39	746976.00	34089.49
2	Bihar	31561.30	42961.00	5077.08
3	Chhattisgarh	101279.29	60294.00	9086.92
4	Gujarat	15334.41	17836.00	1431.12
5	Goa	10000.00	12685.00	825.40
6	Haryana	-	-	104.56
7	Jharkhand	25300.00	32714.00	3044.42
8	Karnataka	20900.00	37598.00	8773.36
9	Kerala	94480.00	310841.00	5937.47
10	Madhya Pradesh	74960.00	116360.00	14163.63
11	Maharashtra	66756.00	87350.00	12444.51
12	Odisha	45800.00	70026.00	9273.10
13	Punjab	6981.00	6676.00	2685.05
14	Rajasthan	148500.00	217479.00	17166.26
15	Tamil Nadu	32940.00	37886.00	4250.35
16	Telangana	8100.00	18405.00	2581.78
17	Uttar Pradesh	171184.80	273672.00	21353.58
18	West Bengal	21400.00	48585.00	3628.01
19	Assam	4400.00	9740.00	3012.55
20	Arunachal Pradesh	380.00	-	234.56
21	Mizoram	780.00	2054.00	469.61
22	Manipur	600.00	-	163.46
23	Nagaland	480.00	-	333.72
24	Sikkim	63000.00	-	1848.88
25	Tripura	1000.00	-	687.05
26	Meghalaya	900.00	2275.00	448.12
27	Himachal Pradesh	18747.87	44932.00	3354.52
28	Jammu & Kashmir	5160.00	12900.00	839.81
29	Uttarakhand	140740.00	301109.00	41947.28
30	Andaman & Nicobar	14491.00	3590.00	163.00
31	Daman & Diu	642.18	1324.00	235.55
32	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	500.00	-	1000.00
33	Delhi	-	-	471.45
34	Puducherry	-	-	44.75
35	Chandigarh	-	-	77.42
36	Lakshadweep	-	-	227.20
37	Ladakh	10480.00	14070.00	404.85
	Total	14,98,583.24	25,30,338.00	211879.86

Note: Total fund release Rs 2,170.30 crore (including Rs 2,118.80 Crore to States/UTs & Rs. 51.50 Crore for other expenses)

 

The Union Cabinet on 25th November 2024 approved the National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) as a standalone centrally sponsored scheme with an overall outlay of ₹2481 crore. The Mission has a target to initiate 1 crore farmers to natural farming spreading over 7.5 Lakh ha land.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, Shri Ram Nath Thakur in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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