PM Kisan new registration: steps, documents and Farmer ID

A farmer family that owns cultivable land and is not yet receiving PM-KISAN can register at any time. Registration is free on the PM-KISAN portal. You can apply yourself online, through the PM-KISAN app, at a Common Service Centre (CSC), or through the revenue or agriculture official your state has designated. Whichever route you use, your state government checks your land and details before the first ₹2,000 is paid.

In many states you now need a Farmer ID from the state farmer registry before a new PM-KISAN registration can go ahead. The Farmer ID section shows when that requirement applies and what to do.

Before you start: check eligibility

Registration will be rejected if your family falls in an exclusion category, so check first. In short, you need cultivable land recorded in your own name (or your spouse’s or minor child’s), received before 1 February 2019 or later by inheritance, and no family member who is a government employee (other than Group D), a ₹10,000-plus pensioner, an income tax payer, a practising registered professional, or a present or former holder of high office. The full list, with a checker, is on the PM Kisan eligibility page.

Ways to register

The official FAQ says eligible farmers may apply with the village patwari, revenue officials or other officers named by the state. Block and district nodal officers then process the data and send it to the State Nodal Officer, who uploads it to the portal. Farmers without a mobile phone can use CSCs and state offices at block and tehsil level.

Details you need

Keep these papers with you when you apply: Aadhaar card, bank passbook, and your latest land record. Your name should be spelled the same way on all three. Mismatched names are one of the most common reasons a registration gets stuck.

Make sure your bank account is seeded with Aadhaar for direct benefit transfer before you register. Read Aadhaar-bank seeding if you are not sure.

Farmer ID: when it is required

Farmer ID is a digital identity issued through the State Farmers Registry under AgriStack, the Government’s digital agriculture platform. It covers landholding farmers and records their land details, and states use it for schemes such as PM-KISAN, crop insurance and procurement.

The official position has changed over time:

• In August 2025 the Government told Parliament that Farmer ID had been made mandatory for new PM-KISAN registrations in 14 states.
• In March 2026 the Government said Farmer ID was mandatory for new registrations only in the 19 states where farmer registry work had commenced. In states where the registry had not started, farmers could register without a Farmer ID.

The rule applies to new registrations. If the official registration form tells you a Farmer ID has not been generated for you, it offers the Farmer ID creation process. Complete that first, through your state’s farmer registry, a CSC or a registration camp, and then return to PM-KISAN.

States with Farmer IDs generated

By 19 March 2026, more than 9.20 crore Farmer IDs had been generated in these states. This shows where the registry is running; ask your state agriculture department whether a Farmer ID is required for your PM-KISAN registration.

If your name or land details do not match across documents, the Government says a grievance mechanism exists for land or name mismatch so that you can still get a Farmer ID. Raise it with your local agriculture or revenue office.

Step by step on the PM-KISAN portal

1. Open New Farmer Registration on pmkisan.gov.in. You can also reach it from the Farmers Corner on the home page.
2. Enter your Aadhaar number and mobile number, and select your state.
3. Read the consent text. It explains that your Aadhaar, photo and demographic details are used to authenticate you and check your eligibility. Tick to agree.
4. Your Aadhaar is authenticated with UIDAI. You can continue only if authentication succeeds.
5. Fill in your personal details, bank details and land details exactly as in your documents. In states that need it, the form checks for your Farmer ID.
6. Make the self-declaration about eligibility and submit.
7. Note the reference or registration number shown. You will need it to check status and for any complaint.

At a CSC, the operator follows the same steps for you and may complete biometric authentication. Ask for a printout or the reference number before you leave.

What happens after you submit

Your application goes automatically to the State Nodal Officer for verification. The state checks your land record, your declaration and your details. Once approved, your data passes through further checks with UIDAI, PFMS (which validates bank accounts and government employee and pensioner data), the Income Tax Department and NPCI. Only then is your name included in a payment batch.

There is no national time limit for approval. Under the guidelines, a farmer whose name is uploaded in a particular four-month period becomes entitled to the installment for that period and later ones, so a delay in approval does not always mean money is lost.

After approval, complete eKYC if you have not already done so. Payments need eKYC, land seeding and an Aadhaar-seeded bank account.

Check the status of a self-registration

Use Status of Self Registered Farmer / CSC Farmers on the portal. It shows whether your application is pending at the block, district or state level, approved or rejected. Kisan e-Mitra and the 155261 phone assistant can also tell you the stage.

If you need to correct something before approval, use Edit / Update Self Registration. Read self-registration correction for what you can change yourself.

Why a registration is pending or rejected

The Government ran a special drive from 21 September 2024 to clear pending self-registrations; more than 30 lakh pending cases were approved by states under it. If yours has been pending a long time, contact your block agriculture office and raise a query on the Helpdesk – Query Form, which accepts a temporary ID for new or pending registrations.

Registering through a CSC: what to expect

At a Common Service Centre the operator logs in to the official system, enters your Aadhaar and details, and may authenticate you with your fingerprint. Take your Aadhaar card, bank passbook and land record. Check every detail on the screen before the operator submits, especially the spelling of your name and the bank account number. Ask for the reference number or a printed acknowledgement and keep it safe. The application then goes to your state for verification, exactly like an online self-registration.

Women farmers

Land recorded in a woman’s name qualifies in exactly the same way. Women farmers make up nearly one in four PM-KISAN beneficiaries, and more than ₹1.06 lakh crore has reached women under the scheme. Remember that husband and wife are one family, so only one of them can be the beneficiary.

Fraud warnings

• Registration on the portal is free. Do not pay anyone who promises “guaranteed approval”.
• Never give your OTP to someone on the phone. Enter it yourself, only on pmkisan.gov.in or the official app.
• Do not fill PM-KISAN forms on websites that are not government addresses. Any site asking for Aadhaar and bank details outside pmkisan.gov.in, a CSC or a state government portal should be avoided.

If you are unsure which route your state prefers, ask at the block agriculture office before you start.

FAQ

See also: land seeding and helpline and grievance routes.