Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana

Announced in Budget 2025-26, the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana takes a different approach from the crop-wise missions: instead of targeting a crop nationally, it targets districts that are behind and works on everything at once there.

How districts are chosen

The programme covers 100 districts selected on three criteria:

• low productivity
• moderate crop intensity
• below-average credit availability

What it covers in those districts

Productivity, crop diversification, sustainable practices, post-harvest storage, irrigation and credit — deliberately broad, because a district that is behind on all of these is not fixed by improving one.

It is implemented with the states and is expected to help about 1.7 crore farmers.

In a covered district, the programme works on:

• Productivity improvement
• Crop diversification
• Sustainable agricultural practices
• Post-harvest storage, at the panchayat and block level
• Irrigation
• Credit availability, which is one of the selection criteria and so a particular focus

Because it is district-based, the practical benefit to you depends on whether your district is one of the 100 and what your state has planned there.

• Farmers in the selected districts. This is the controlling condition — the programme is not open nationally.
• Check with your district agriculture office whether your district is among the 100 selected.

• Farmers outside the 100 selected districts are not covered by this programme, though the component schemes it draws on may still be available to them separately.
• The programme is implemented with state governments, so what is actually delivered in a district depends on the state's plan for it.

How to find out if it applies to you

1. Ask your district agriculture office whether your district is one of the 100 covered under the programme.
2. If it is, ask what is being implemented there this year, and under which component — storage, irrigation, diversification or credit.
3. If it is not, ask which of the regular schemes covers the same need in your district. The components here are drawn from existing schemes, most of which operate outside the 100 districts too.

• Land record
• Aadhaar and bank account details
• Crop details, depending on the component applied for