Small and marginal farmers with land holding upto 5 Ha will get financial assistance upto 80% for implementing climate resilient activities such as drip, sprinklers, farm-pond, shade-net, poly-tunnels, etc on their farms

Yes. You are eligible for applying for the given activity

The project has implemented back-ended financial assistance, therefore, you need to apply for the activity which you want to implement on your farm. Once you get pre-sanction after the technical feasibility from Sub Divisional Agriculture Officer (SDAO), you can complete the work. Post completion of the work, you can raise the payment request in the DBT application of NDKSP. After the successful post work inspection, the financial assistance according to the norms of the project will get disbursed to your Aadhaar linked Bank account.

Village selection is a detailed process at the state level and those villages which are the most vulnerable from the perspective of climate and other variables are selected after due consideration. If your village is not included in the scheme, then you are not eligible to avail financial assistance from the project. However, you may utilize the benefits such as agro-climatic advisories issued by the project through the Farmer app, attend the training sessions, etc.

Yes, under Farm Field School initiative of NDKSP, the project conduct training sessions of the farmers in the demo plot of the identified villages which any farmers from that village can attend and take benefit out of it. For further details, Farmers can contact Agriculture Assistant or Cluster Assistant of the village

Farmer Producing Organizations/ Farmer Producing Companies/ Self Help Groups from the districts covered under NDKSP scheme are eligible to apply for multiple activities which are designed for Agribusiness promotion in the project region. Details of the registration and application are available on the portal https://dbt.mahapocra.gov.in or you may connect with Project Specialist – Agribusiness at the Superintendent Agriculture Officer at district level.

Yes, you are eligible for the application.

We are sorry but farmers with land holdings with more than 5 Ha land are not eligible to apply for the activities under NDKSP scheme. However, you may take benefit of the training sessions as well as utilize Agro Climatic advisories issued by the project in your region

I am a member of FPO which is in the districts of NDKSP however the village where the FPO is located doesn’t comes under the list of villages of NDKSP. Will my FPO be able to apply for the scheme?

Yes, you can apply for certain activities such as poultry, goat farming, epiculture, etc. and you need to provide landless farmer certificate from the competent authority from your village

There is no special eligibility criteria for application for Shade-net. Your land holding is supposed to be less than 5 Ha and you should have arrangement of funds so that you can implement the activity as the financial assistance will be provided to you from the side of project after completion & successful verification of the work.

You have to visit to the portal of NDKSP at https://dbt.mahapocra.gov.in or through the mobile app DBT PoCRA which you need to download from Google Play Store. You can register yourself using your Aadhaar number by authenticating yourself through OTP. If your mobile number is not registered with Aadhaar to get OTP, then you have to contact Cluster Assistant of NDKSP in the respective village and get yourself registered with his help or you may visit to nearest Citizen Support Centre (CSC) and register yourself with their assistance. After registration, you can apply for the available activities. After application, you will receive SMS communication about the status of your application.

After successful application, you will receive updates about the status of your application through SMS. After successful technical verification, you will receive Pre-Sanction from the office of Sub Divisional Agriculture Officer (SDAO). Intimation of Pre-Sanction will be delivered to you via SMS and you can check the same after login to your profile on NDKSP DBT portal or mobile app. Post receiving the Pre-sanction, you may start the work on the applied activity.

To get financial benefit post completion of the work, you need to link your Aadhaar card with your bank account by visiting your bank and requesting them to seed your Aadhaar card with bank account.

You are supposed to visit Citizen Service Centre and ask them to activate your Aadhaar by providing the required document.

You need to inform the officials from NDKSP that you have activated your Aadhaar number. Post the confirmation, NDKSP office will process your funds on as and when it is available from the side of treasury.