It was initiated in 2007 as an umbrella scheme for ensuring holistic development of agriculture and allied sectors.

The scheme incentivizes States to increase public investment in Agriculture & allied sectors.

Database of the individual beneficiaries are maintained at the State level only.

The PM-RKVY comprises of the following schemes:
🔸Soil Health Management
🔸Rainfed Area Development
🔸Agro Forestry
🔸Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana
🔸Agricultural Mechanization including Crop Residue Management
🔸Per Drop More Crop
🔸Crop Diversification Programme
🔸RKVY DPR component

Accelerator Fund for Agri Startups

Krishonnati Yojana (KY)

‘Green Revolution– Krishonnati Yojana’ is an Umbrella Scheme comprising both Central Sector as well as Centrally Sponsored Schemes/Missions.

This Umbrella Scheme has the following twelve Schemes/Missions:
🔸Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH);
🔸National Mission on Oil Seeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP);
🔸National Food Security Mission (NFSM);
🔸National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA);
🔸Sub-Mission on Agriculture Extension (SMAE);
🔸Sub-Mission on Seeds & Planting Material (SMSP);
🔸Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanisation (SMAM);
🔸Sub-Mission on Plant Protection and Plant Quarantine (SMPPQ);
🔸Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Census, Economics and Statistics;
🔸Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Cooperation;
🔸Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Marketing (ISAM);
🔸National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGP-A).

📍The rationalisation of Various Schemes has been undertaken to:

To avoid duplication, ensure convergence and provide flexibility to States.
Focus on emergent challenges of Agriculture – Nutrition security, Sustainability, Climate resilience, value chain development & private sector participation.

February 2025

Soil Health Card scheme

Swastha Dhara, Khet Haraa

Launched in 19th february, 2015 by PM Narendra Modi at Suratgarh, Rajasthan.
The scheme was to assist the state governments in issuing soil health cards.
The soil health card portal - soilhealth.dac.gov.in - facilitates generation of Soil Health Cards for the benefit of farmers in uniform and standardized format across country in all major languages and 5 dialects.
A printed report issued to farmers once in every 3 years for each of his or her holdings.
Provides information to farmers on nutrient status of soil with respect to 12 parameters on macro, secondary and micro nutrients
24.74 crore health cards are generated across the country ass on Feb, 2025.

Other initiatives

Village-Level Soil Testing Labs (VLSTLS) were introduced in 2023 to encourage individual entrepreneurs to set up soil testing units
The School Soil Health Programme, launched in collaboration with Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, ICAR, and Department of School Education & Literacy, educates students on soil conservation