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Integrated Farming

What to Do?
What Can You Get?
Whom to Contact ?

What to Do?

Promote crop / cropping system suitable to agro– climatic conditions.
Diversify crop / cropping system incorporating livestock, fisheries, horticulture, dairy, agro-forestry etc.
Create source for protective irrigation through check dams, tanks, farm ponds, shallow / medium tube wells, dug wells etc.
Technologies for improving water use and moisture conservation measures like efficient water application system, land leveling, field bunding, contour bunding, trenches, mulching, ridge and furrow method etc. to be adopted

What Can You Get?

Assistance under National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
S.No	Type of Assistance	Quantum of Assistance	Scheme
	A) Integrated Farming System
1	Cropping System (CS) with rice, wheat, coarse cereal/oil-seed/fibre/pulse based two crops	50% of input cost limited to Rs 10,000/-per ha with permissible assistance of maximum 2 ha/ beneficiary.	National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA)
2	Horticulture Based Farming System (Plantation + Crops/Cropping system)	50% of input cost limited to Rs 25,000/- per ha with permissible assistance of maximum 2 ha/beneficiary.	-do-
3	Tree/Silvi-Pastural/in-situ/ex-situ conservation of Non Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) (Plantation + Grass/ Crops/Cropping System)	50% of input cost limited to Rs 15,000/- per ha with permissible assistance of maximum 2 ha/ beneficiary.	-do-
	B) Livestock based farming system
4.1	CB Cows + Mixed farming + Fodder Buffalo +Mixed farming +Fodder Cow/ buffalo+dairy+fodder cow/buffalo + small ruminants	50% of input cost of cropping system including cost of animals with one year concentrated food limited to Rs 40,000/- per ha (2 milch animals + 1 ha CS) with permissible assistance of maximum 2 ha/beneficiary.	-do-
4.2	Small Ruminant + Mixed farming + Pasture Poultry/duckery + Mixed Farming Poultry/duckery + Fishery + Mixed Farming	50% of input cost of cropping system including cost of animals/birds with one year concentrated food limited to Rs 25,000/- per ha (10 animals/50 birds + 1 ha Cropping System (CS) with permissible assistance of maximum 2 ha/ beneficiar	-do-
5	Fishery Based Farming System	50% of input cost of cropping/vegetable system including cost of fish farming limited to Rs 25.000/- per ha with permissible assistance of maximum 2 ha/beneficiary	-do-
6	Vermi-compost Units/Organic Inputs Production Unit, Green Manuring	50% of cost subject to a limit of Rs 125/- per cubic ft. Maximum permissible assistance shall be Rs 50,000/- per unit for permanent structure and Rs 8,000 per unit for HDPE vermin bed. 50% of cost limited to Rs 2,000/- per ha and restricted to 2 ha per beneficiary for green manuring	-do-
7	Silage making for increased availability of green fodder round the year	Construction of silo Pit of 2100-2500 cubic feet with brick and cement mortar (either below ground or above ground) with provision of Chaff Cutter and Weighing Balance	100 % assistance for silage makingunit consisting of Silo Pit Chaff cutter and Weighing Balance limited to Rs 1.25 lakh per farm family
8	Vermi Compost Units / Organic Input Production Unit, Green Manuring	Construction of vermin composting units, organic input production units and green manuring.	50 per cent cost subject to a limit of Rs 125/- per cubic ft. Maximum permissible assistance shallbe Rs 50,000/- per unit for permanent structure and Rs 8000/- per unit for HDPE vermin bed. 50% of cost limited to Rs 2000/- per ha. And restricted to 2 ha. Per beneficiary for green manuring.
9	Post Harvest Storage / Value addition of NTFP	Small village level storage / packaging / processing unit for value addition to the produce of farming system to fetch better economic returns	50 per cent of capital cost subject to a limit of Rs 4000/- per square meter of storage / processing unit. Maximum permissible assistance shall be restricted to Rs 2 lakh per unit.

Whom to Contact ?

District Agriculture Officer / District Horticulture Officer / Project Director, ATMA

Source: Department of Agriculture & Cooperation

Last Modified : 7/30/2024

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