PROGRESS OF NATURAL FARMING UNDER THE NATIONAL MISSION FOR NATURAL FARMING

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare PROGRESS OF NATURAL FARMING UNDER THE NATIONAL MISSION FOR NATURAL FARMING प्रव तथ: 24 JUL 2026 5:59PM by PIB Delhi The Union Cabinet approved the National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) on 25th November 2024 as a centrally sponsored scheme which is being implemented across the country to promote natural farming. Natural Farming is a chemical free farming, involving livestock integrated natural farming methods and diversified crop systems rooted in the Indian traditional knowledge. Natural farming improves soil health, restores ecosystems and reduces input cost to the farmer to achieve greater climate resilience. Natural farming recognises the interdependence of the natural ecosystem amongst soil, water, microbiome, plants, animals, climate and human requirements. State/UT wise details of the number of farmers covered, area brought under natural farming, and the clusters formed under the Mission (2024-25 and 2025-26) is given at Annexure - I.

Under the Mission, 527 Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs), 76 Agriculture Universities (AUs), 194 Local Natural farming Institutes (LNFIs) have been identified to support cluster level implementation of the scheme. 18 Centres of Natural Farming Institutes (CoNFs) have been identified that provide training of Scientists (from these (KVKs)/(SAUs), Officials of State/Districts/Block level implementing the scheme and Farmer Master Trainers (FMTs). At a cluster level Community Resource Persons (CRPs) are deployed to handhold the farmers on the practices of Natural Farming. So far, 33,257 Krishi Sakhis/Community Resource Persons (CRPs) have been trained at Krishi Vigyan Kendras(KVKs)/Agricultural Universities (AUs)/Local Natural Farming Institutions (LNFIs) under the Mission.

Annexure-I State/UT wise number of clusters formed, number of farmers enrolled and area covered in hectares under National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) Scheme (2024-25 and 2025-26) S. No. State/UT Clusters formed Number of Area in Farmers Hectare enrolled 1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 2 250 100 2 Andhra Pradesh 5002 650163 425912.564 3 Arunachal Pradesh 108 2982 705.3164 Assam 32 3721 2584.596 5 Bihar 450 50065 21155.308 6 Chhattisgarh 467 57590 25605.416 7 Delhi 6 375 150 8 Goa 13 1623 630.888 9 Gujarat 1033 117108 48740.94 10 Haryana 194 11288 9307.212 11 Himachal Pradesh 531 62003 22002.316 12 Jammu & Kashmir 160 19791 6905.048 13 Jharkhand 182 11562 4586.88 14 Karnataka 991 124332 54456.8 15 Kerala 114 16700 6210.112 16 Ladakh 4 621 175.616 17 Madhya Pradesh 1805 167661 90902.256 18 Maharashtra 1711 143707 40514.96 19 Manipur 88 9077 3564.632 20 Meghalaya 84 7017 2273.396 21 Mizoram 176 13503 8396.04 22 Nagaland 107 7998 3473.12 23 Odisha 442 60422 24058.648 24 Puducherry 6 772 256.252 25 Punjab 68 5295 1831.2826 Rajasthan 2380 212346 91165.58 27 Tamil Nadu 60 6072 2708.912 28 Telangana 506 61205 35819.928 29 Tripura 111 13643 5188.988 30 Uttar Pradesh 1857 230733 83166.9 31 Uttarakhand 203 23032 9566.548 TOTAL 18893 2092657 1032116.452 This information was given by the Union Minister of state for Agriculture and Farmers welfare, SHRI RAMNATH THAKUR in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

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