Understand horticulture subsidies
before you invest

No single rate applies. Protected cultivation is generally 50%, most field crops 40%, INM and IPM 30%, and most large post-harvest projects 35%. The rate is set component by component, and always with a ceiling attached.

There is no single polyhouse subsidy. Fan and pad and naturally ventilated structures carry different cost norms, both fall as the area grows, both are assisted at 50%, and both are capped at 4,000 square metres per beneficiary.

Everyone quotes 50%. Worked at the 4,000 square metre limit against the April 2025 cost norms, the same rule returns about 50% on a net house, 35% on a naturally ventilated polyhouse and 16% on a fan and pad greenhouse — because subsidy is calculated on the cost norm, not on your bill.

The National Horticulture Board has suspended the receipt of fresh Grant of Clearance applications under Scheme No. 1, Commercial Horticulture, and Scheme No. 2, Cold Storage. The suspension...

Annexure VI of the April 2025 guidelines is headed “National Horticulture Board: proposed changes in components and cost norms”. We record that wording on every NHB page rather than presenti...

A public circular of the National Horticulture Board dated 21 August 2026 revised the rate of assistance across its components to 35% in general areas and 45% in the North Eastern and Himala...

Annexure VI of the same guidelines covers National Horticulture Board components: commercial horticulture projects, protected cultivation above 4,000 square metres, cold storage from 5,001 t...

Annexure V of the guidelines sets out the cost norms and pattern of assistance for NHM. We have entered these as individual claims, each citing the page it comes from, and written explanatio...

The amendment circular of 21 August 2026, the application suspension circular of 3 September 2026 and the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare letter of 12 August 2025 on protecte...

The Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture operational guidelines dated April 2025, issued by the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, ar...