Key facts
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Facility typeRevolving crop and allied-activity credit under the Kisan Credit Card scheme.Effective 11 May 2026View source
The current annexure identifies the crop-production and AH&F schemes and describes their limits as revolving credit facilities.
- Source
- Annexure II — Scheme for Crop Production and AH&F Scheme
- Page / section
- pages 1–3, scheme names and revolving-credit terms
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
PurposeCrop cultivation; post-harvest expenses; produce marketing; farmer-household consumption; working capital for farm-asset maintenance and allied agriculture; and investment credit for agriculture and allied activities. The linked AH&F component covers working capital for fish, aquatic organisms, poultry, dairy, sheep/goat, pig and other listed allied activity.Effective 11 May 2026View source
PNB separates crop-production uses from short-term working capital for animal-husbandry and fisheries activity in the same current annexure.
- Source
- Annexure II — Scheme for Crop Production and AH&F Scheme
- Page / section
- page 1, rows 1–2; pages 2–3, AH&F purpose/activity rows
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Eligible applicantsCrop KCC: individual/joint owner cultivators, tenant farmers, oral lessees and sharecroppers, plus eligible farmer SHGs/JLGs including tenant farmers and sharecroppers. AH&F KCC: farmers engaged in the activity, including individuals, joint borrowers, groups/partners, sharecroppers/tenant farmers, SHGs, JLGs and women's groups; fishery applicants must meet the scheme's activity and applicable licensing/ownership-or-lease conditions.Effective 11 May 2026View source
Crop production and AH&F have separately stated eligible-person and activity lists; they are not collapsed into one borrower rule.
- Source
- Annexure II — Scheme for Crop Production and AH&F Scheme
- Page / section
- page 1, eligibility row; page 2, AH&F eligibility and covered-activity rows
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Credit limitNeed-based against the applicable scale of finance, up to ₹10 crore for crop-production KCC and up to ₹10 crore for the AH&F component. For marginal farmers, PNB also lists a Flexi-KCC range of ₹10,000–₹50,000, subject to landholding, crop and assessed needs.Effective 11 May 2026View source
Limits are need-based and depend on the scale of finance; the ₹10 crore ceilings are explicitly listed for both components.
- Source
- Annexure II — Scheme for Crop Production and AH&F Scheme
- Page / section
- page 1, extent of limit and marginal-farmer Flexi- rows; page 2, AH&F extent row
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Interest rateRegular KCC outstanding up to ₹3 lakh: 7.00% p.a. The same current schedule lists agriculture loans up to ₹20 lakh, including irregular KCC, at one-year MCLR +1.25%; it separately lists ₹20–50 lakh at one-year MCLR +2.00% and loans above ₹50 lakh at risk-based pricing. The schedule does not explicitly assign those latter agriculture rows to regular KCC above ₹3 lakh.Effective 1 Oct 2026View source
The current table names the 7% band as regular up to ₹3 lakh and calls the next band agriculture loans, including irregular ; no regular- rate is inferred for the unassigned balance band.
- Source
- PNB Interest Rates on Advances — current and agriculture rates
- Page / section
- effective 01 October 2026; Agriculture Advances — Regular and other agriculture loan rows
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
MarginProduction credit: nil. Term/ investment credit: nil up to ₹2 lakh; 10% above ₹2 lakh to ₹10 lakh; 15% above ₹10 lakh to ₹25 lakh; 25% above ₹25 lakh.Effective 11 May 2026View source
The Annexure II tables give nil production-credit margin and the same amount bands for term/investment credit in both components.
- Source
- Annexure II — Scheme for Crop Production and AH&F Scheme
- Page / section
- page 1, crop margin table; page 2, AH&F margin table
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
SecurityUp to ₹2 lakh: hypothecation of crops/ assets created from the bank loan. Above ₹2 lakh: primary hypothecation plus the listed land charge or qualifying agricultural/ immovable-property mortgage; the property value must be 75% of the loan for other farmers or 50% for small and marginal farmers. The same threshold and valuation bands are published for crop and AH&F KCC.Effective 11 May 2026View source
PNB's current linked annexure moved the threshold from ₹1.6 lakh in the older version to ₹2 lakh; the current bands are used.
- Source
- Annexure II — Scheme for Crop Production and AH&F Scheme
- Page / section
- page 1, crop security row; pages 2–3, AH&F security row
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Processing feeAgriculture-credit schedule effective 15 April 2026: nil up to ₹3 lakh; 0.30% above ₹3 lakh. For KCC/ KSY/ Krishak Unnati, charge at sanction and then renewal/ enhancement; no charge for an in-validity review, and renewal is after five years. PNB also waives the fee for KCCs secured by specified liquid securities and publishes additional SHG/ JLG and priority-sector exemptions.Effective 15 Apr 2026View source
The schedule specifically names processing timing and exemptions; the exact exception matrix is retained in the attached table.
- Source
- PNB Credit Related Service Charges — Agriculture Credit schedule
- Page / section
- Effective 15 April 2026; sections 12.1.1–12.1.2, including -specific exceptions
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Accident cover listed with KCCPNB's current KCC guideline lists risk cover up to ₹2 lakh for ₹20 per year under Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana. The annexure does not identify insurer, age band or the detailed covered-event matrix in this feature row.Effective 11 May 2026View source
PNB states a maximum risk cover and annual premium in the feature row; it does not include the scheme policy's full benefit matrix there.
- Source
- Annexure II — Scheme for Crop Production and AH&F Scheme
- Page / section
- page 2, account features; page 3, AH&F features
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Agriculture-credit checklistPNB's general agriculture-credit checklist asks for the completed application form, identity proof, residence proof, two photographs not older than six months, and land-record particulars. PNB does not identify extra KCC-specific documents in this checklist.View source
This is PNB's bank-wide agriculture-credit checklist and is labelled as such; it is not presented as a -specific exhaustive form list.
- Source
- PNB Agricultural Banking — agriculture-credit document checklist
- Page / section
- Documents Required for Agriculture Loan
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Rate benchmarkOne-year MCLR for the published agriculture-loan band up to ₹20 lakh, including irregular KCC. Regular KCC outstanding up to ₹3 lakh is separately 7.00% p.a.; PNB does not assign the other agriculture bands to regular KCC.Effective 1 Oct 2026View source
“Regular —O/S up to Rs. 3 Lakhs: 7.00%”; agriculture loans up to Rs. 20 Lakhs, including irregular , use (1 Yr) +1.25%. The other exposure bands are not assigned to regular .
- Source
- PNB Interest Rates on Advances — and agriculture rates
- Page / section
- effective 01 October 2026; Agriculture Advances, rows 1–4
- Accessed
- 4 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Validity / renewalPNB says KCC/ KSY limits are renewed after five years.Effective 15 Apr 2026View source
Section 12.1.2(d) states that renewal under /KSY/ Krishak Unnati is done after a period of five years.
- Source
- PNB Credit Related Service Charges — Agriculture Credit schedule
- Page / section
- Section 12.1.2(d), /KSY renewal after five years
- Accessed
- 3 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Digital application channelsPNB lists its self-owned Digi Dairy KCC journey on the PNB website, PNB ONE for Android and iOS, and Internet Banking. The dedicated portal is digidairykcc.pnb.bank.in.View source
PNB names Digi Dairy as self-owned and lists Website, PNB One App (Android and iOS) and Internet Banking, with the digidairykcc.pnb.bank.in route.
- Source
- PNB List of Digital Lending Apps — Digi Dairy entry
- Page / section
- Agriculture digital-lending table, Digi Dairy rows (web lines 592–595)
- Accessed
- 7 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Digi Dairy KCC portal startThe portal is headed “PNB Dairy KCC / Digi Dairy Kisan Credit Card.” Its initial screen displays a Customer ID field, Institute Tie Up and Institute Unique ID fields, and a separate New Customer option. The subsequent dynamic application steps were not available in this review.View source
The official portal heading and visible initial-screen fields are recorded as displayed; no conclusion is drawn about final eligibility, documents or post-login terms.
- Source
- PNB Digi Dairy application portal
- Page / section
- Initial portal screen, web lines 2–18
- Accessed
- 7 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Benefits and features
- Crop-production and allied-activity working-capital variants under one facility
- Need-based limit up to ₹10 crore in PNB's 11 May 2026 guideline
- operations through branches, , business correspondents, PoS and mobile-based channels listed by PNB
- Credit balance in the account earns the savings-account rate
- PNB's current guideline lists accident cover up to ₹2 lakh for ₹20 per year
Eligibility
- Crop-production eligibility includes owner cultivators, tenant farmers, oral lessees, sharecroppers and qualifying farmer /. The separate animal-husbandry/fisheries component covers farmers engaged in the listed activity; its own eligibility and collateral terms are retained in the source table.
Passing a listed condition does not mean the bank will approve an application.
Documents the bank lists
- Agriculture-credit application form
- Identity proof
- Residence proof
- Two recent photographs (not older than six months)
- Land-record particulars