Horticulture
Horticulture
What to Do?
- Grow Horticultural Crops for higher income from lesser area.
- For healthy crop use high quality planting material.
- To keep fruits and vegetables fresh for longer period, use cold storage facility/cool houses.
- Earn maximum profit by adopting correct method of harvesting, cleaning, grading, processing and packaging.
- Produce off-season vegetables and flowers in poly-houses, low tunnels.
What Can You Get?
| S.No | Type of Assistance Schemes/Com | Criteria for Assistance/maximum limit | Schemes/Components | |
| Subsidy | Maximum Subsidy per Unit Area Cost(Ha*) | |||
| A. Sub Schemes of NHM under MIDH | ||||
| 1 | Hi-tech Nursery (2-4 ha unit) | 40% of cost, as credit linked back ended subsidy |
Rs.25.00 lakhs/ha | Sub Schemes of NHM under MIDH |
| Small Nursery (1ha unit) | 50% of cost in private sector, as credit linked back ended subsidy |
Rs. 7.5 lakhs/ha | ||
| 100% in public sector | Rs.15.00 lakhs/ ha | |||
| 2 | Establishment of new orchard (For a maximum area of 4 ha per beneficiary) | Sub Schemes of NHM under MIDH |
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| a) Non- Perennial Fruits(Banana & Pineapple) |
50 % (75:25) | Rs. 43,750/ha | ||
| b) Non-Perenial Fruits(T.C.Banana & T.C.Pineapple) |
50% (75:25) | Rs.62,500/ha | ||
| c) Non- Perennial Fruits- Papaya | 50%(75:25) | Rs.30,000/ha | ||
| d) Perennial Fruits (Normal spacing) |
50% in 3 installments of 60:20:20 subject to survival rate of 75% in 2nd year and 90% in 3rd year) |
Rs.30,000/ha | ||
| e) Perennial Fruits (High Density planting) |
50% in 3 installments of 60:20:20 subject to survival rate of 75% in 2nd year and 90% in 3rd year) |
Rs.50,000/ha | ||
| 3 | Establishment of new garden of Spices( For a maximum area of 4ha per beneficiary) a) Perennial Spices (Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Clove , Nutmeg) |
50% in 3 installments of 60:20:20 subject to survival rate of 75% in 2nd year and 90% in 3rd year) |
Rs. 25,000/ha | Sub Schemes of NHM under MIDH |
| b) Rhizomatic Spices(Ginger, Termeric) |
50% | Rs.15,000/ha | ||
| 4 | Establishment of new garden of Plantation Crop(Cashew)- Area Expansion including replanting ( For a maximum area of 4ha per beneficiary) |
50% in 3 installments of 60:20:20 subject to survival rate of 75% in 2nd year and 90% in 3rd year) |
Rs. 25,000/ha | Sub Schemes of NHM under MIDH |
| 5 | Pollination Support through Bee Keeping (Maximum 50 colonies / beneficiary) |
40% of cost | Rs. 800/- per hive | Sub Schemes of NHM under MIDH |
| Rs. 800/- per colony | ||||
| Rs. 8,000 per set of equipments including honey extractor(4 frames), food grade container(30 kg), net, etc. |
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| 6 | PROTECTED CULTIVATION | |||
| I. Green House | ||||
| a) Fan & Pad System (limited to 1000 sq m per beneficiary ) |
50% of cost | Rs. 825/- per sqm. | ||
| b)Naturally Ventilated System (Maximum 1000 sq m per beneficiary) |
50% of cost | |||
| i) Tubular structure | 50% of cost | Rs. 530/- per sq m. | ||
| ii) Wooden Structure | 50% of cost | Rs.270/- per sq m. | ||
| iii) Bamboo Structure | 50% of cost | Rs.225/- per sq m. | ||
| II. Plastic Tunnel (Maximum 1000 sq m/ beneficiary) |
50% of cost | Rs.30/per sq m. | ||
| III. Plastic Mulching (Maximum 2 ha/beneficiary) |
50% of cost | Rs. 16,000/- per ha. | ||
| IV. Cost of vegetables seedlings grown in Polyhouse (Maximum of 4000 sqm / beneficiary) | 50% of cost | Rs.70/- per sq m. | ||
| V. Cultivation of Flowers in polyhouse/ shadenet house (Maximum of 4000 sqm / beneficiary) | 50% of cost | |||
| i) Orchid and Anthurium | Rs.350/- per sq m. | |||
| ii) Carnation and gerbera | Rs. 305/- per sq m. | |||
| iii) Rose | Rs. 213/- per sq m. | |||
| VI. Integrated Post Harvest Management Cold Storage Units (Construction/Expansion and modernization) (Maximum 5000 MT capacity) |
50% of cost (Project Based) |
Rs 4,000/- per MT | ||
| VII. Development of Commercial Horticulture (Project Based) |
Back ended capital investment subsidy @ not exceeding 33% |
Rs. 50.00 lakh/project |
NHB | |
| Laying Demonstration Plots in Coconut Gardens (Integrated Farming for Productivity Improvement) | 50% | Rs. 35,000/- in two installment |
CDB | |
| Supply of Copra Drier | Project Based | |||
Whom/Where to Contact?
Zonal Assistant Director(Agri)/Nearest Agriculture Sub-Depot/Agriculture Field Staff/ Rural Knowledge Centre /Kisan Call Centre - Phone : 03192-243434
Source: Department of Agriculture
Last Modified : 3/1/2020
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