The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of spraying machinery for agricultural use, that activity is 28213.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
28213 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of spraying machinery for agricultural use: a sub-class of class 2821, manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery, within division 28, manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 28Group 282Class 2821Sub-class 28213
Manufacture of spraying machinery for agricultural use
Sub-class 28213 · Class 2821 · Group 282 · Division 28 · Section C, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
282135 digits: 28 + 2 + 1 + 3NIC 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 28213. 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 28 covers manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of special-purpose machinery.
Manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of spraying machinery for agricultural use. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
28213 is a sub-class of class 2821, manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of non-power-driven agricultural hand tools, see 2593
- - manufacture of conveyors for farm use, see 2816
- - manufacture of power-driven hand tools, see 2818
- - manufacture of cream separators, see 2825
- - manufacture of machinery to clean, sort or grade seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables, see 2825
- - manufacture of road tractors for semi-trailers, see 2910
- - manufacture of road trailers or semi-trailers, see 2920
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 28213 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of spraying machinery for agricultural use, that activity is 28213.
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
28213 is for manufacture of spraying machinery for agricultural use. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 2821. Each has its own page with the official wording.
28219Class 2821 · another sub-class of the same class28211Class 2821 · another sub-class of the same class28212Class 2821 · another sub-class of the same classClass 2821 has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 28213.
Questions
Manufacture of spraying machinery for agricultural use, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 2821, manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery.
Class 2821, manufacture of agricultural and forestry machinery, has 4 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 28213, they are: 28219 (Manufacture of other agricultural and forestry machinery n.e.c.); 28211 (Manufacture of tractors used in agriculture and forestry); 28212 (Manufacture of ploughs, manure spreaders, seeders, harrows and similar agricultural machinery for soil preparation, planting or fertilizing, harvesting or threshing machinery).
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 2821, 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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