Subsidies, grants, insurance and registrations - what you can claim and how to claim it.
Check with your Agrarian Service Centre.
These notes are a starting point, not official notices. Names, forms and windows change by season and by district. Farmey does not submit applications for you.
The National Harvest Plan is inside the app - it is not rebuilt on this page.
Farmer registration at the Agrarian Service Centre
Check with your Agrarian Service Centre
- Who can apply
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A farmer who works land in that centre’s area - owner, lessee or typically the person who actually cultivates.
- Deadline
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Registration is usually open as an ongoing process, not a single national date. Ask locally before a subsidy window opens.
- Where to go
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Your Divisional Agrarian Service Centre (and, if they send you on, the District office).
- What to bring
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National identity card, proof of land (deed, permit, lease or a letter the centre accepts), and details of what you grow.
- Issued by
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Department of Agrarian Development, through the local Agrarian Service Centre.
Most fertiliser, insurance and grant schemes start from a name that is already on the centre’s books. If you are not registered, that is the first errand - not filling in the scheme form you heard about from a neighbour.
Fertiliser or input support (seasonal)
Check with your Agrarian Service Centre
- Who can apply
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Usually registered paddy growers, and sometimes other crops named in that season’s circular. Eligibility is not the same every year.
- Deadline
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Set for that Maha or Yala by the ministry or department. There is no date on this page, because a printed date here would be wrong the next season.
- Where to go
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Agrarian Service Centre first. Some seasons use a bank or a digital wallet; the centre will say which.
- What to bring
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Farmer registration, NIC, land extent as they have it on file, and any bank or wallet details they asked for that season.
- Issued by
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Typically the Ministry of Agriculture and the Department of Agrarian Development, sometimes with Treasury. Confirm the current issuer at the centre.
Schemes have been a bag of fertiliser, a cash grant, or a voucher. The name on the radio is not always the name on the form. Take the circular or the notice on the centre’s board as the source, not a message in a group chat.
Crop insurance
Check with your Agrarian Service Centre
- Who can apply
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Growers of crops the insurer lists for that season and district - often paddy, sometimes named field crops. Cover is not automatic because you farm.
- Deadline
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Premiums are usually collected by a cut-off tied to planting, not to harvest. Ask before you finish sowing.
- Where to go
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Agrarian Service Centre, or the Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board office they point you to.
- What to bring
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NIC, farmer registration, crop and extent, and planting dates. For a claim: photos, a field inspection date, and whatever form they issued at enrolment.
- Issued by
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Agricultural and Agrarian Insurance Board (and any private or bank product the centre actually names - do not assume a brand).
Insurance that was not enrolled before the loss is not a claim. If a drought or a flood is already in the news, it is usually too late for that season’s premium. Ask what perils are covered (drought, flood, pests) - the word “crop insurance” hides large gaps.
Phytosanitary certificate for produce leaving the country
Check with your Agrarian Service Centre
- Who can apply
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Exporters and, in practice, the packhouse or collector who is sending the consignment. A farmer selling only at the pola does not need this.
- Deadline
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Tied to the shipment, not to the calendar year. Inspection has to happen on a live consignment - ask how many working days they need.
- Where to go
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National Plant Quarantine Service (Department of Agriculture). Your Agrarian Service Centre can tell you which office handles your crop.
- What to bring
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Application, consignment details, invoice or packing list, and the crop sample or site access they ask to inspect.
- Issued by
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National Plant Quarantine Service, Department of Agriculture.
This is here so a farmer whose collector talks about “the certificate” knows what is being asked for, and that it is an export document - not a licence to sell locally. Fees, forms and crop lists belong to the quarantine service, not to Farmey.