The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 01611.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
01611 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for the activity named above: a sub-class of class 0161, support activities for crop production, within division 01, crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 01Group 016Class 0161Sub-class 01611
Agricultural activities on a fee or contract basis (preparation of fields, establishing a crop, treatment of crops, crop spraying, trimming of fruit trees and vines, transplanting of rice, thinning of beets, harvesting, pest control in connection with agriculture etc.)
Sub-class 01611 · Class 0161 · Group 016 · Division 01 · Section A, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
016115 digits: 01 + 6 + 1 + 1NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 01611. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 01 covers crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities. It sits in section A, agriculture, forestry and fishing.
Support activities to agriculture and post-harvest crop activities.
Support activities for crop production. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Agricultural activities on a fee or contract basis (preparation of fields, establishing a crop, treatment of crops, crop spraying, trimming of fruit trees and vines, transplanting of rice, thinning of beets, harvesting, pest control in connection with agriculture etc.). The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
01611 is a sub-class of class 0161, support activities for crop production. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - post-harvest crop activities, see 0163
- - activities of agronomists and agricultural economists, see 7490
- - landscape architecture, see 7110
- - landscape gardening, planting, see 8130
- - maintenance of land to keep it in good ecological condition, see 8130
- - organization of agricultural shows and fairs, see 8230
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 01611 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For this activity, that activity is 01611.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
01611 is for the activity named at the top of this page. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 0161. Each has its own page with the official wording.
01612Class 0161 · another sub-class of the same class01619Class 0161 · another sub-class of the same classClass 0161 has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 01611.
Questions
Agricultural activities on a fee or contract basis (preparation of fields, establishing a crop, treatment of crops, crop spraying, trimming of fruit trees and vines, transplanting of rice, thinning of beets, harvesting, pest control in connection with agriculture etc.), in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 0161, support activities for crop production.
Class 0161, support activities for crop production, has 3 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 01611, they are: 01612 (Operation of agricultural irrigation equipment); 01619 (Other supporting activities including agricultural gardening (excluding parks and gardening activities),n.e.c.).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page, and the explanatory note for class 0161, are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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