The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For growing of plants for planting, that activity is 01301.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
01301 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for growing of plants for planting: a sub-class of class 0130, plant propagation, 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 013Class 0130Sub-class 01301
Growing of plants for planting
Sub-class 01301 · Class 0130 · Group 013 · 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.
013015 digits: 01 + 3 + 0 + 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 01301. 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.
Plant propagation.
Plant propagation. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Growing of plants for planting. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
01301 is a sub-class of class 0130, plant propagation. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the production of all vegetative planting materials including cuttings, suckers and seedlings for direct plant propagation or to create plant grafting stock into which selected scion is grafted for eventual planting to produce crops.
This class excludes:
- - operation of forest tree nurseries, see 0210
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 01301 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For growing of plants for planting, that activity is 01301.
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.
Questions
Growing of plants for planting, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 0130, plant propagation.
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 0130, 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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