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The Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare reviewed the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana at Krishi Bhawan, focusing on the 100 identified districts, scheme convergence and outcome-based monitoring.
The average score of the 100 districts across the scheme's six objectives rose from 22.54 in April 2026 to 38.85 in July 2026 — an improvement of 16.31 points.
All 100 districts have uploaded District Action Plans, submitted output-indicator data up to July 2026 and submitted outcome-indicator data for 2025-26.
Between January and July 2026, 6,90,530 farmers and 88,961 extension workers were trained, with a further 2,20,683 farmers and extension workers trained in natural farming.
The dashboard's Financial Progress Module went live on 31 August 2026, and a Beneficiary Progress Module is targeted for mid-September 2026.
Accelerate agricultural development in 100 districts with low productivity, low cropping intensity and low agricultural credit disbursement, across six objectives from productivity to governance
Key: Approved 16 July 2025, launched 11 October 2025; an announced annual outlay of Rs 24,000 crore for six years from 2025-26, expected to reach about 1.7 crore farmers; delivered by converging 36 Central schemes of 11 Ministries and Departments rather than by creating new expenditure lines
Rapidly transform districts lagging on key development indicators through convergence, collaboration and competition between districts
Key: Launched in 2018 covering 112 districts under NITI Aayog, with districts ranked on a delta ranking that measures incremental progress rather than absolute level — the template PM-DDKY's monthly district ranking follows
Provide direct income support to eligible landholding farmer families
Key: Launched in 2019; Rs 6,000 per year paid in three equal instalments through Direct Benefit Transfer — one of the schemes in the wider convergence architecture PM-DDKY draws on
Move farmers towards chemical-free, low-input cultivation
Key: Within PM-DDKY, 2,20,683 farmers and extension workers were trained in natural farming between January and July 2026, over and above general capacity building
Nodal ministry for PM-DDKY; the review considered convening the scheme's National Executive Committee under the chairmanship of the Agriculture Minister
District-level farm science centres used under PM-DDKY as technical partners for capacity development and field interventions; they are the frontline of India's agricultural extension system
The apex body for coordinating agricultural research and education, and the parent of the KVK network on which PM-DDKY's extension work rests
Officers assigned to undertake regular field-level monitoring of PM-DDKY implementation in the identified districts, reporting into the dashboard
Has included adoption of PM-DDKY districts for CSR activity by Central Public Sector Enterprises for 2026-27 and 2027-28, opening a non-budgetary channel of support
An output is what a programme produces and can be counted almost immediately — a warehouse built, a farmer trained, a loan disbursed. An outcome is the change that those outputs were meant to cause — higher yield, longer storage life, better credit access at the farm level. Outputs move fast and can be ranked monthly, which is why PM-DDKY ranks districts on its 74 output indicators every month; outcomes move slowly and are measured against a baseline, which is why the 47 outcome indicators are assessed annually against the position at the start. The distinction is the whole point of the review's emphasis on 'moving beyond tracking activities and expenditure': a district can score well on outputs by spending its allocation and still show no change in productivity. The Beneficiary Progress Module targeted for mid-September 2026 is the attempt to close that gap by tracking what reached individual farmers rather than what the district as a whole reported.
Simple Analogy: Counting the textbooks delivered to a school is an output. Finding out whether the children can now read is the outcome.
The 2018 NITI Aayog programme covering 112 districts whose delta-ranking method PM-DDKY reproduces in agriculture; the pair is a natural comparison question.
One of the three criteria for selecting the 100 districts — the number of crops grown on the same land in a year, and a standard agricultural geography concept linked to irrigation availability.
The KVK network under ICAR carries PM-DDKY's training load; the first KVK dates from the 1970s and the network is the standard answer on India's extension machinery.
The Department of Public Enterprises has routed CPSE CSR spending towards PM-DDKY districts, linking the scheme to the statutory CSR obligation on qualifying companies.
Low credit disbursement is one of the three selection criteria and one of the six objectives, connecting the scheme to Kisan Credit Cards, priority sector lending norms and NABARD's refinance role.
GS Paper 3 > Agriculture > Issues of Cropping Pattern, Irrigation, Storage and Farm Credit; GS Paper 2 > Government Policies and Interventions
General Awareness > Government Schemes
General Awareness > Agriculture and Rural Credit Schemes
General Awareness > Current Schemes
Flagship agriculture schemes and their district counts, outlays and nodal ministries are asked nearly every year across UPSC Prelims, banking and SSC papers.
The ratio of gross cropped area to net sown area, expressed as a percentage — how many crops a piece of land carries in a year; one of PM-DDKY's three district selection criteria.
Delivering a programme by aligning existing schemes of several ministries on a defined geography, rather than creating a fresh expenditure line; PM-DDKY converges 36 Central schemes of 11 Ministries and Departments.
The district-level implementation plan each of the 100 districts uploads, against which its monthly output-indicator performance is assessed.
Ranking districts by incremental improvement over their own baseline rather than by absolute performance — the method the Aspirational Districts Programme introduced.