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Natinal Mission on Natural Farming aims at creating institutional capacities for documentation and dissemination of best practices to implement self sustainable self generating natural farming systems to cut down cost of cultivation, resource conservation, healthy soils, environment and food. Cell have been created for effective implementation at state level and distrct level. Project Co-ordinator and Technical Co-ordinator at HQ unit is an implementating Government nodal agency to implement the schemes of diversified agriculture support project in Uttar Pradesh. Namami Gange mega project launched by Honrable P.M. of India in 2022-23. The article is based on scheme implemented in different 28 districts of Western Uttar Pradesh. Corresponding author is t he Technical Coordinatior in Government of Uttar Pradesh, under Co-ordination Department, Lucknow,(U.P.). Trials were conducted under natural farming in Bareilly district. It is recorded that Lentil, Gram, Mustard perfomed better in yield q / ha followed by old variety of Rice and Wheat. Andhra Pradesh 5.92 lakh, Himachal Pradesh 1.53 lakh and Gujrat 2.0 lakh number of farmers, and 3.73, 3.56, 8.50 Village Panchayat and 2.68 lakh ha, 9192 ha, and 2.5 lakh ha area has been covered respectively under natural farming. Cost and yield under natural farming in comparision to oragnic and conventional farming is lower. The trials have been conducted in different locations because of standisation of subhash palekar's model of BPKP (ICAR-Report,2017-18).Uttar Pradesh has covered 97460 ha area and 05 lakh farmers during last two years (Niti Ayog Report,2024-25).Project: Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Growth and Rural Enterprise Ecosystem Strengthening (AGREES) has been launched in 28 district of eastern Uttar Pradesh state. The Government of India has applied for financing in the amount about US$ 350 Million equivelent from World Bank toward the cost of the IPF Project. The project has included the components are-Productivity enhancement, commodity clusters, digital and financial ecosystems and project management, learning and partenerships. Cow dung based bio-stimulant was prepared locally by fermenting with cow urine, jaggery and pulses flour about 400 kg for an acre of land applied to fields increased the microbial count in the soil, which supplies the plants with essential nutrients (Jivamrit).