National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, 2014 (India)

The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) has been formulated for enhancing agricultural productivity especially in rainfed areas focusing on integrated farming, water use efficiency, soil health management and synergizing resource conservation. NMSA architecture has been designed by consolidating all ongoing as well as newly proposed activities/programmes related to sustainable agriculture with a special emphasis on soil and water conservation, water use efficiency, soil health management and rainfed area development. The focus of NMSA will be to infuse the judicious utilization of resources of commons through community based approach. NMSA will cater to key dimensions of water use efficiency, nutrient management and livelihood diversification through adoption of sustainable development pathway by progressively shifting to environmental friendly technologies, adoption of energy-efficient equipment, conservation of natural resources, integrated farming, and the like. NMSA aims at promoting location specific improved agronomic practices through soil health management, enhanced water use efficiency, judicious use of chemicals, crop diversification, progressive adoption of crop-livestock farming systems and integrated approaches like crop-sericulture, agro-forestry, fish farming, among others.