The Chief Minister's Office of Uttar Pradesh announced on Monday, 25 May 2026 that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed state officials to use technology to deliver benefits of multiple farmer welfare schemes in a transparent and simplified manner to eligible cultivators across the state. In the directive, the Chief Minister instructed that farmers be encouraged to adopt balanced fertiliser use and shift toward organic alternatives. The official post quoted him as saying: 'संतुलित उर्वरक उपयोग और जैविक विकल्पों को अपनाने के लिए किसानों को प्रोत्साहित किया जाए' ('Farmers should be encouraged to adopt balanced fertiliser use and organic alternatives').

Context

The Chief Minister specifically directed that the benefits of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) and the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), along with other schemes, must reach eligible farmers on time. The emphasis was on transparent and simplified delivery, with technology as the primary enabler. The directive signals a push to close gaps in last-mile benefit transfer ahead of the upcoming Kharif season.

Policy Backdrop

PM-KISAN, launched in February 2019, provides an annual income support of Rs 6,000 directly to eligible landholding farmer families through direct benefit transfer. PMFBY, rolled out from Kharif 2016, offers subsidised crop insurance against yield losses from natural calamities and replaced the earlier National Agricultural Insurance Scheme. Uttar Pradesh, home to over 2 crore farm households, is one of the largest implementing states for both programmes. The state has integrated Aadhaar-linked databases and mobile platforms with its welfare delivery infrastructure since 2017 to improve targeting and reduce leakage.

Stakeholders and Impact

Small and marginal farmers, as well as tenant cultivators across Uttar Pradesh, stand to benefit most directly from faster and more transparent scheme delivery. The push toward balanced fertiliser use and organic farming aligns with the Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana framework, under which the state has promoted organic clusters in recent years. For farmers dependent on timely insurance payouts and income-support instalments, technology-mediated disbursement reduces delays that have historically affected agricultural planning at the household level.

What's Next

Attention will now turn to how swiftly state departments operationalise these directives, particularly in integrating soil-health-card data with PM-KISAN and PMFBY portals during the Kharif registration drive. The broader trajectory in Uttar Pradesh — and across major grain-producing states — points toward a continued shift from physical disbursement counters to fully digital, auditable welfare delivery. How effectively this translates to ground-level enrolment and timely payouts for small cultivators will be the real measure of the directive's impact.