National Mission on Agricultural Extension and Technology (NMAET)
Updated: 16 Oct 2025
Ministry:
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
Beneficiary:
Farmers
Overview
The NMAET is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme under ATMA aimed at making agricultural extension farmer-driven through ICT-based outreach, mechanisation support, and promoting FPO formation via Farmer Interest Groups.
- Type: Centrally Sponsored Scheme
- Objective: To make the extension system farmer-driven and farmer-accountable by way of new institutional arrangements for technology dissemination.
- It was introduced under the umbrella of Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA).
- It involves a judicious mix of
- extensive physical outreach and interactive methods of information dissemination, use of ICT, institution strengthening to promote mechanisation, and
- Encourage aggregation of Farmers into Interest Groups (FIGs) to form Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs).
- Key components
- Sub Mission on Agricultural Extension (SMAE): It focuses on awareness creation and enhanced use of appropriate technologies in agriculture & allied sectors
- Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM): Financial assistance is provided for establishing 'Custom Hiring Centres (CHCs)' and 'Hi-tech Hubs of High-Value Machines.
- Sub Mission on Seed and Planting Material (SMSP): To produce and supply quality seeds to farmers through Seed Village Programme, Establishment of Seed Processing- cum- Seed Storage Godowns, National Seed Reserve, etc.
- Sub Mission on Plant Protection and Plant Quarantine (SMPP): Regulatory, surveillance and capacity building functions to shield our bio-security from the incursion and spread of alien species