Where does NMSA sit inside the NAPCC?

The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was released by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change on 30 June 2008 and identifies eight national missions: the National Solar Mission, the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency, the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, the National Water Mission, the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, the National Mission for a Green India, the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) and the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change. NMSA is the agriculture-sector mission, anchored in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, and is the formal vehicle through which DA&FW programmes on rainfed-area development, on-farm water management, soil health and climate-resilient research align with India's NDC commitments under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement.

What are the four functional sub-components of NMSA?

NMSA has four functional sub-components. (1) Rainfed Area Development (RAD) — promotes Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) on rainfed land through cluster-based interventions combining crops, horticulture, livestock, fishery, beekeeping and agroforestry, with a typical cluster size of about 100 hectares per project. (2) On-Farm Water Management (OFWM) — funds on-farm efficient water-use through micro-irrigation, secondary storage, water-conveyance lining and water-harvesting structures (this component was subsequently consolidated into the Per Drop More Crop component of PMKSY in 2015 and now operates under PMKSY / PM-RKVY). (3) Soil Health Card Scheme (SHCS) — issues soil-test-based crop-wise fertiliser and micronutrient recommendations to farmers, with cards refreshed on a 2–3 year cycle. (4) Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture: Monitoring, Modelling and Networking (CCSAMRA) — operates the NICRA (National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture) research network coordinated by ICAR-CRIDA Hyderabad with about 151 climate-vulnerable districts under the demonstration window.

What is RAD — Rainfed Area Development — and how does it work?

RAD is NMSA's sub-component for cluster-based Integrated Farming Systems on rainfed land. India's rainfed area covers about 51% of the net sown area and accounts for roughly 40% of total food production, 60% of the livestock population and 100% of forest-based livelihoods, so the RAD programmatic logic is to raise productivity per unit rainfall on this hard-to-reach base. RAD's unit of intervention is a cluster of about 100 hectares of contiguous rainfed land, on which the state agriculture department puts together an Integrated Farming System (IFS) plan combining at least three of: crops, horticulture, livestock, fishery, beekeeping, agroforestry, mushroom and value addition. The standard per-hectare assistance ceiling is ~₹15,000 over a two-year cycle (per the DA&FW Operational Guidelines), funded on the standard centrally-sponsored 60:40 (general states) / 90:10 (NE / Himalayan states) cost-share pattern; the State Level Sanctioning Committee approves state RAD plans and the District Level Implementation Committee approves cluster-wise IFS proposals.

What is the Soil Health Card Scheme (SHCS) under NMSA?

The Soil Health Card Scheme (SHCS) was launched on 19 February 2015 at Suratgarh in Rajasthan as a sub-component of NMSA. Each card carries a soil-test based crop-wise recommendation on twelve parameters — pH, EC, organic carbon, primary macronutrients (N, P, K), secondary macronutrients (S) and micronutrients (Zn, B, Fe, Mn, Cu) — and is refreshed on a notional two-year cycle. The mission has supported the establishment of about 8,000 state-government soil-testing laboratories — including static labs, mobile labs, mini labs and KVK-anchored Village Level Soil Testing Labs — and has issued cumulatively several hundred million cards across its multiple cycles. From the 2022–23 budget head onwards, the Soil Health & Fertility component is operated as the consolidated Soil Health Mission under the post-1-October-2024 PM-RKVY umbrella. See our /soil-health guide for the card mechanics and how farmers can request a fresh test.

How does NMSA relate to PKVY, NMNF, the Sub-Mission on Agroforestry and PMKSY?

NMSA sits at the centre of a cluster of related sustainability programmes that share its 12th-FYP framing. The Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) — launched in 2016–17 as a separate sub-mission within NMSA — funds nursery establishment, quality planting material and farmer-cluster agroforestry blocks. Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) — launched in 2015 — funds 20-hectare organic clusters with PGS-India certification and sits alongside NMSA. The National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) — approved 25 November 2024 with a ₹2,481 crore outlay — succeeds the BPKP sub-component of PKVY for chemical-free natural farming. On-Farm Water Management was consolidated into Per Drop More Crop under PMKSY in 2015. From 1 October 2024 RKVY, Soil Health Mission, Per Drop More Crop, SMAF, PKVY and Crop Residue Management were all folded into the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (PM-RKVY) umbrella for the 2024–25 to 2025–26 cycle, with NMNF continuing as a standalone CSS.

Where are the NMSA operational guidelines, allocations and progress reports?

DA&FW publishes the NMSA operational guidelines, the consolidated RAD / OFWM / SHCS / CCSAMRA sub-component templates and the standard Annual Action Plan format at agriwelfare.gov.in and the legacy NMSA portal at nmsa.dac.gov.in. State-wise annual allocations are notified through the DA&FW Operational Circulars and the State Level Sanctioning Committee proceedings. ICAR-CRIDA publishes the NICRA project progress, vulnerable-district atlas and the technology-demonstration outputs at nicra-icar.in. NITI Aayog publishes the cross-mission NAPCC review on niti.gov.in. Cabinet press releases of 30 June 2008 (NAPCC) and 1 October 2024 (PM-RKVY / Krishonnati Yojana restructure) are on pib.gov.in.

NMSA Guide — National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (one of the eight missions of the NAPCC 2008, formally operationalised 2014–15): the four functional sub-components (RAD, OFWM, SHCS, CCSAMRA), the climate-resilience anchor and the post-1-October-2024 migration of its components into the PM-RKVY umbrella

The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) is one of the eight national missionsof the Prime Minister's National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), released by the Council on Climate Change chaired by the Prime Minister on 30 June 2008. Its operational framework was finalised by the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation (now the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare) and the mission was formally rolled out as a centrally-sponsored mission from 2014–15to make Indian agriculture more productive, sustainable, remunerative and climate-resilient — particularly on India's vast rainfed land base. NMSA was the umbrella for soil-health, on-farm water-use efficiency, rainfed-area integrated farming systems and climate-resilience research, with four functional sub-components (RAD, OFWM, SHCS, CCSAMRA) and convergence linkages to the Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) and the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY). On 1 October 2024the Union Cabinet folded NMSA's components into the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (PM-RKVY) umbrella for the residual 15th-Finance-Commission cycle, but the underlying operational guidelines for RAD, the Soil Health Mission and the NICRA research network continue unchanged.

At a glance

Mission type: centrally-sponsored mission of the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare under the eight-mission framework of the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).
NAPCC approval: 30 June 2008 by the Council on Climate Change chaired by the Prime Minister.
Operational rollout: formally from 2014–15 as a stand-alone centrally-sponsored mission.
Four sub-components: Rainfed Area Development (RAD), On-Farm Water Management (OFWM, consolidated into PMKSY's Per Drop More Crop in 2015), Soil Health Card Scheme (SHCS, launched 19 February 2015) and Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture: Monitoring, Modelling and Networking (CCSAMRA).
Convergence: Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF), Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), Per Drop More Crop / PMKSY, National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) and the ICAR-CRIDA-led NICRA network.
Cost-share: 60:40 Centre-State for general states, 90:10 for the eight North-Eastern states and the Himalayan states (HP / UK / J&K / Ladakh) and 100% central for Union Territories without a legislature.
Post-1-October-2024 status: NMSA components consolidated into the PM-RKVY umbrella alongside RKVY, Soil Health Mission, Per Drop More Crop, SMAF, PKVY and Crop Residue Management.
Portals: agriwelfare.gov.in, nmsa.dac.gov.in, nicra-icar.in, soilhealth.dac.gov.in.

Why a sustainable-agriculture mission — the NAPCC origin

The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), released by the Council on Climate Change on 30 June 2008, identified eight national missions running across solar power, energy efficiency, sustainable habitat, water, the Himalayan ecosystem, a green India, sustainable agriculture and strategic knowledge on climate change. NMSA is the agriculture-sector mission. Its operational logic is that Indian agriculture is unusually exposed to climate variability — about 51% of the net sown area is rainfed, the Indo-Gangetic Plain breadbasket is groundwater-dependent on falling water tables, and roughly 60% of the livestock population grazes on common-property rainfed land. A sector-wide mission was therefore needed both to adapt Indian agriculture to a warmer, more variable climate, and to mitigatethe sector's own greenhouse-gas footprint through soil-carbon-positive practices, balanced fertiliser use and on-farm water-use efficiency.

The four functional sub-components

1. Rainfed Area Development (RAD)

RAD is the cluster-based Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) sub-component of NMSA. The unit of intervention is a cluster of about 100 hectares of contiguous rainfed land on which the state agriculture department, in convergence with horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries and the local KVK, puts together an IFS plan combining at least three enterprises out of crops, horticulture, livestock, fishery, beekeeping, agroforestry, mushroom and value addition. The standard per-hectare assistance ceiling is ~₹15,000 over a two-year cycleagainst the DA&FW Operational Guidelines. RAD's programmatic logic is to raise productivity per unit rainfall on India's ~51% rainfed cropped area, where conventional crop-by-crop interventions struggle because the binding constraint is moisture, not seed or fertiliser.

2. On-Farm Water Management (OFWM)

OFWM funded on-farm efficient water-use through drip and sprinkler micro-irrigation, secondary storage, water-conveyance lining and water-harvesting structures. In 2015 OFWM was consolidated into the Per Drop More Crop (PDMC) component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) and from 2022–23 PDMC's budget head shifted alongside the RKVY / sustainable-agriculture portfolio. The same micro-irrigation operational guidelines, subsidy slabs (55% for small / marginal farmers, 45% for other farmers) and empanelment architecture continue to apply.

3. Soil Health Card Scheme (SHCS)

SHCS was launched on 19 February 2015 at Suratgarh in Rajasthan as the soil-test-based fertiliser-advisory sub-component of NMSA. Each card carries a crop-wise recommendation on twelve parameters — pH, electrical conductivity, organic carbon, primary macronutrients (N, P, K), secondary macronutrients (S) and micronutrients (Zn, B, Fe, Mn, Cu) — and is refreshed on a notional two-year cycle. The mission has supported the establishment of about 8,000 state-government soil-testing laboratoriesacross static labs, mobile labs, mini labs and KVK-anchored Village Level Soil Testing Labs. From the 2022–23 budget head onwards the Soil Health & Fertility component is operated as the consolidated Soil Health Mission under the post-1-October-2024 PM-RKVY umbrella; see our Soil Health Card guide for the 12-parameter testing framework and the farmer-side application flow.

4. CCSAMRA — Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture (NICRA)

CCSAMRA is the research and extension sub-component of NMSA. It funds the agro-met and climate-resilience research network through ICAR, with the National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project coordinated by ICAR-CRIDA Hyderabad acting as its operational arm. NICRA was launched on 1 February 2011 with four functional modules — strategic research, technology demonstration, capacity building and sponsored / competitive grants — and runs climate-resilience demonstration projects in about 151 climate-vulnerable districts, each anchored by a Krishi Vigyan Kendra that runs the village-cluster demonstration on the ground. CCSAMRA also funds the Agromet Field Units (AMFUs) and District Agromet Units (DAMUs) that issue block-level weather-based agro-advisories through the Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa, in partnership with the India Meteorological Department.

Convergence — SMAF, PKVY, NMNF and PMKSY

Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF): launched in 2016–17 as a separate sub-mission within NMSA, funds nursery establishment, quality planting material and farmer-cluster agroforestry blocks. Now under the PM-RKVY umbrella.
Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY): 20-hectare organic clusters with PGS-India certification, sits alongside NMSA in the sustainable-agriculture portfolio.
National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF): ₹2,481 crore standalone CSS approved 25 November 2024, succeeds the BPKP sub-component of PKVY for strictly cattle-based, chemical-free natural farming.
Per Drop More Crop (PDMC) under PMKSY: the field-level micro-irrigation successor of NMSA's OFWM sub-component.
Soil Health Card: the soil-test-based fertiliser-advisory card system launched 19 February 2015 as the SHCS sub-component of NMSA.
ICAR-CRIDA / NICRA: the climate-resilient agriculture research and demonstration network operationalising CCSAMRA across 151 climate-vulnerable districts — see our NICRA deep-dive for the four-module architecture, District Agriculture Contingency Plans and the Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa agromet advisory backbone.

Cost-share between Centre and State

NMSA followed the standard centrally-sponsored scheme cost-share pattern. For the general states the Centre-State share is 60:40, for the eight North-Eastern states and the Himalayan states (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir / Ladakh) the share is 90:10, and for Union Territories without a legislature the central share is 100%. The same cost-share continues post-1-October-2024 for the NMSA components that are now operated under the PM-RKVY umbrella.

The 1 October 2024 PM-RKVY restructure

On 1 October 2024the Union Cabinet restructured the DA&FW scheme portfolio into two umbrella schemes for the 2024–25 to 2025–26 cycle. The Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (PM-RKVY)umbrella consolidates the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY-RAFTAAR), the Soil Health Mission (built on SHCS / NMSA), Rainfed Area Development (RAD / NMSA), Per Drop More Crop (PDMC / PMKSY — itself the consolidated successor of NMSA's On-Farm Water Management), the Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF), Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) and Crop Residue Management. The parallel Krishonnati Yojana umbrella consolidates NFSM, NMEO-Oilseeds, NMEO-OP, the Sub-Mission on Seeds and Planting Material, the Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Mechanization (ISAM / SMAM) and the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Extension (ATMA). NMSA therefore no longer runs as a stand-alone mission budget head from 2024–25; its four functional sub-components continue to operate under the PM-RKVY umbrella with their pre-existing operational guidelines.

References

agriwelfare.gov.in — Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare — NMSA operational guidelines, the RAD / OFWM / SHCS / CCSAMRA sub-component templates and the Annual Action Plan format. Post-1-October-2024 the same operational guidelines apply under the PM-RKVY umbrella.
nmsa.dac.gov.in — Legacy NMSA portal of the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation (now DA&FW) — mission-launch documentation, the four-sub-component framing and historical state-wise allocations against the 12th and 13th-FYP windows.
nicra-icar.in — ICAR-CRIDA Hyderabad — National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) — the operational arm of NMSA's CCSAMRA sub-component, including the 151 climate-vulnerable district list and the village-cluster demonstration output catalogue.
soilhealth.dac.gov.in — Soil Health Card portal — card lookup, the 12-parameter test framework, mobile / static / mini / VLSTL laboratory directory and the consolidated Soil Health Mission (post-1-October-2024 PM-RKVY) operational notes.
pib.gov.in — Press Information Bureau — Cabinet press releases of 30 June 2008 (NAPCC and the eight national missions), 19 February 2015 (Soil Health Card Scheme launch) and 1 October 2024 (PM-RKVY / Krishonnati Yojana restructure that consolidates NMSA's components).
niti.gov.in — NITI Aayog — cross-mission NAPCC review, the Composite Water Management Index and the Aspirational Districts Programme overlay (NICRA-vulnerable districts have substantial overlap with the ADP list).

Frequently asked questions

What is the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)?: NMSA is one of the eight national missions under the Prime Minister's National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), approved by the Council on Climate Change chaired by the Prime Minister on 30 June 2008. Its operational framework was finalised by the Department of Agriculture & Cooperation (now the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare) and the mission was formally rolled out as a centrally-sponsored mission from 2014–15 to make Indian agriculture more productive, sustainable, remunerative and climate-resilient — particularly in rainfed areas. NMSA was the umbrella for soil-health, on-farm water-use efficiency, rainfed-area integrated farming systems and climate-resilience research, with four functional sub-components (RAD, OFWM, SHCS, CCSAMRA) and convergence linkages to the Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) and Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY). From 1 October 2024 NMSA's components were folded into the PM-RKVY umbrella alongside RKVY, Per Drop More Crop, SMAF, PKVY and the Crop Residue Management scheme.
Where does NMSA sit inside the NAPCC?: The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was released by the Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change on 30 June 2008 and identifies eight national missions: the National Solar Mission, the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency, the National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, the National Water Mission, the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, the National Mission for a Green India, the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) and the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change. NMSA is the agriculture-sector mission, anchored in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, and is the formal vehicle through which DA&FW programmes on rainfed-area development, on-farm water management, soil health and climate-resilient research align with India's NDC commitments under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement.
What are the four functional sub-components of NMSA?: NMSA has four functional sub-components. (1) Rainfed Area Development (RAD) — promotes Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) on rainfed land through cluster-based interventions combining crops, horticulture, livestock, fishery, beekeeping and agroforestry, with a typical cluster size of about 100 hectares per project. (2) On-Farm Water Management (OFWM) — funds on-farm efficient water-use through micro-irrigation, secondary storage, water-conveyance lining and water-harvesting structures (this component was subsequently consolidated into the Per Drop More Crop component of PMKSY in 2015 and now operates under PMKSY / PM-RKVY). (3) Soil Health Card Scheme (SHCS) — issues soil-test-based crop-wise fertiliser and micronutrient recommendations to farmers, with cards refreshed on a 2–3 year cycle. (4) Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture: Monitoring, Modelling and Networking (CCSAMRA) — operates the NICRA (National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture) research network coordinated by ICAR-CRIDA Hyderabad with about 151 climate-vulnerable districts under the demonstration window.
What is RAD — Rainfed Area Development — and how does it work?: RAD is NMSA's sub-component for cluster-based Integrated Farming Systems on rainfed land. India's rainfed area covers about 51% of the net sown area and accounts for roughly 40% of total food production, 60% of the livestock population and 100% of forest-based livelihoods, so the RAD programmatic logic is to raise productivity per unit rainfall on this hard-to-reach base. RAD's unit of intervention is a cluster of about 100 hectares of contiguous rainfed land, on which the state agriculture department puts together an Integrated Farming System (IFS) plan combining at least three of: crops, horticulture, livestock, fishery, beekeeping, agroforestry, mushroom and value addition. The standard per-hectare assistance ceiling is ~₹15,000 over a two-year cycle (per the DA&FW Operational Guidelines), funded on the standard centrally-sponsored 60:40 (general states) / 90:10 (NE / Himalayan states) cost-share pattern; the State Level Sanctioning Committee approves state RAD plans and the District Level Implementation Committee approves cluster-wise IFS proposals.
What is the Soil Health Card Scheme (SHCS) under NMSA?: The Soil Health Card Scheme (SHCS) was launched on 19 February 2015 at Suratgarh in Rajasthan as a sub-component of NMSA. Each card carries a soil-test based crop-wise recommendation on twelve parameters — pH, EC, organic carbon, primary macronutrients (N, P, K), secondary macronutrients (S) and micronutrients (Zn, B, Fe, Mn, Cu) — and is refreshed on a notional two-year cycle. The mission has supported the establishment of about 8,000 state-government soil-testing laboratories — including static labs, mobile labs, mini labs and KVK-anchored Village Level Soil Testing Labs — and has issued cumulatively several hundred million cards across its multiple cycles. From the 2022–23 budget head onwards, the Soil Health & Fertility component is operated as the consolidated Soil Health Mission under the post-1-October-2024 PM-RKVY umbrella. See our /soil-health guide for the card mechanics and how farmers can request a fresh test.
What is CCSAMRA and how does NICRA fit in?: CCSAMRA — Climate Change & Sustainable Agriculture: Monitoring, Modelling and Networking — is the research / extension sub-component of NMSA. It funds the agro-met and climate-resilience research network through ICAR, with the National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project coordinated by ICAR-CRIDA Hyderabad acting as its operational arm. NICRA was launched on 1 February 2011 with four functional modules — strategic research, technology demonstration, capacity building and sponsored / competitive grants — and runs climate-resilience demonstration projects in about 151 climate-vulnerable districts, with each district anchored by a KVK that runs the village-cluster demonstration. CCSAMRA also funds the Agromet Field Units (AMFUs) and District Agromet Units (DAMUs) that issue block-level weather-based agro-advisories through the Gramin Krishi Mausam Sewa, in partnership with the India Meteorological Department.
How does NMSA relate to PKVY, NMNF, the Sub-Mission on Agroforestry and PMKSY?: NMSA sits at the centre of a cluster of related sustainability programmes that share its 12th-FYP framing. The Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF) — launched in 2016–17 as a separate sub-mission within NMSA — funds nursery establishment, quality planting material and farmer-cluster agroforestry blocks. Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) — launched in 2015 — funds 20-hectare organic clusters with PGS-India certification and sits alongside NMSA. The National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) — approved 25 November 2024 with a ₹2,481 crore outlay — succeeds the BPKP sub-component of PKVY for chemical-free natural farming. On-Farm Water Management was consolidated into Per Drop More Crop under PMKSY in 2015. From 1 October 2024 RKVY, Soil Health Mission, Per Drop More Crop, SMAF, PKVY and Crop Residue Management were all folded into the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (PM-RKVY) umbrella for the 2024–25 to 2025–26 cycle, with NMNF continuing as a standalone CSS.
What changed for NMSA on 1 October 2024?: On 1 October 2024 the Union Cabinet restructured the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare scheme portfolio into two umbrella schemes for the 2024–25 to 2025–26 cycle (the residual 15th Finance Commission window). The Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (PM-RKVY) umbrella consolidates the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY-RAFTAAR), the Soil Health Mission (built on SHCS / NMSA), Rainfed Area Development (RAD / NMSA), Per Drop More Crop (PDMC / PMKSY — itself the consolidated successor of NMSA's On-Farm Water Management), the Sub-Mission on Agroforestry (SMAF), Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) and Crop Residue Management. The parallel Krishonnati Yojana umbrella consolidates NFSM, NMEO-Oilseeds, NMEO-OP, the Sub-Mission on Seeds and Planting Material, the Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Mechanization (ISAM) and the Sub-Mission on Agricultural Extension (ATMA). NMSA therefore no longer runs as a stand-alone mission budget head from 2024–25; its four functional sub-components continue to operate under the PM-RKVY umbrella with their pre-existing operational guidelines.
What is the cost-share pattern under NMSA?: NMSA followed the standard centrally-sponsored scheme cost-share pattern that applies to most DA&FW CSS heads. For the general states the Centre-State share is 60:40, for the eight North-Eastern states and the Himalayan states (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the erstwhile Jammu & Kashmir / Ladakh) the share is 90:10, and for Union Territories without a legislature the central share is 100%. The same cost-share continues post-1-October-2024 for the NMSA components that are now operated under the PM-RKVY umbrella.
Where are the NMSA operational guidelines, allocations and progress reports?: DA&FW publishes the NMSA operational guidelines, the consolidated RAD / OFWM / SHCS / CCSAMRA sub-component templates and the standard Annual Action Plan format at agriwelfare.gov.in and the legacy NMSA portal at nmsa.dac.gov.in. State-wise annual allocations are notified through the DA&FW Operational Circulars and the State Level Sanctioning Committee proceedings. ICAR-CRIDA publishes the NICRA project progress, vulnerable-district atlas and the technology-demonstration outputs at nicra-icar.in. NITI Aayog publishes the cross-mission NAPCC review on niti.gov.in. Cabinet press releases of 30 June 2008 (NAPCC) and 1 October 2024 (PM-RKVY / Krishonnati Yojana restructure) are on pib.gov.in.

Mission-history, sub-component descriptions, the 30 June 2008 NAPCC framing and the 1 October 2024 PM-RKVY restructure summarised above reflect Union Cabinet press releases and operational notes on agriwelfare.gov.in, nmsa.dac.gov.in, nicra-icar.in and soilhealth.dac.gov.in. Annual state allocations, RAD cluster lists and NICRA district lists are revised through ministry operational circulars; state nodal officers, KVKs and farmers should verify current terms before sanctioning or applying for assistance. Last reviewed: 2026-06-16.