National Mission on Edible Oils – Oilseeds

The National Mission on Edible Oils – Oilseeds (NMEO-Oilseeds) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme the Union Cabinet approved on 3 October 2024, with a ₹10,103-crore outlay over 2024-25 to 2030-31, to raise India’s own production of rapeseed-mustard, groundnut, soybean, sunflower and sesamum and cut dependence on imported edible oil.

No. It is an in-kind mission — seed, training and cluster-level support delivered through Value Chain Clusters — not a fixed annual cash transfer like PM-KISAN.

Five primary oilseed crops: rapeseed-mustard, groundnut, soybean, sunflower and sesamum. The mission also works on collection and extraction efficiency from secondary sources — cottonseed, rice bran and tree-borne oilseeds.

NFSM (now NFSNM) covers rice, wheat, pulses, coarse cereals, nutri-cereals and commercial crops such as cotton and sugarcane. Oilseeds used to have a component inside the older national food security/oilseeds structure; since October 2024, oilseeds are covered separately and specifically by NMEO-Oilseeds, alongside NMEO-Oil Palm for palm oil.

There is no single individual online application form. The mission works through more than 600 Value Chain Clusters run by a Value Chain Partner — usually a local FPO or cooperative. Ask your district agriculture office, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, or local FPO whether your area is inside a notified cluster.

Inside a notified cluster: seed of high-oil-content varieties, often as free or subsidised minikits; training; and help linking produce to buyers, all coordinated by the cluster’s Value Chain Partner. Exact input quantities and cost-sharing are set out in the mission’s operational guidelines.

No, it works alongside MSP. Rapeseed-mustard, groundnut, soybean, sunflower, sesamum, safflower and nigerseed already have Minimum Support Prices, and PM-AASHA’s price support and price-deficiency payment schemes continue to back farmers if market prices fall below MSP.

To raise primary oilseed production from about 39 million tonnes in 2022-23 to 69.7 million tonnes by 2030-31. Combined with the Oil Palm mission (NMEO-OP), the goal is 25.45 million tonnes of domestic edible oil by 2030-31 — meeting around 72% of projected demand.

Over 600 Value Chain Clusters across 347 districts, plus an expected 40 lakh additional hectares under oilseeds — largely rice- and potato-fallow land grown as a third crop between two main seasons, along with more intercropping.

They are new public-sector facilities the mission is setting up so certified seed of newer, higher-oil-content varieties reaches farmers faster, instead of older varieties dominating for years after better ones are released.

SATHI (Seed Authentication, Traceability & Holistic Inventory) is the seed-sector portal the mission uses for a 5-year rolling seed plan, so states and seed agencies can plan ahead for the quantity of certified seed a cluster will need.

State agriculture departments, state seed corporations, agricultural universities, KVKs, ICAR institutes and Value Chain Partners (FPOs/cooperatives) run the mission on the ground; the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare monitors it centrally.

No, they are two related missions approved together. NMEO-Oilseeds covers annual oilseed crops — mustard, groundnut, soybean, sunflower, sesamum. NMEO-OP covers oil palm plantation, a separate perennial crop with its own guidelines and area-expansion targets.

The Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare has published the NMEO-Oilseeds Operational Guidelines as a PDF on agriwelfare.gov.in — see the download link on this page.