This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed an Andhra Pradesh figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Andhra Pradesh publishes, what is in it, and what to do with that. The national cost norms that apply meanwhile are in the guides linked at the foot of this page.
Andhra Pradesh turned up a site that is not quite the one a reader needs, and the mismatch is instructive rather than merely inconvenient.
What answers, and what it is
The address that answers is the horticulture department's. What it hosts is APMIP, the Andhra Pradesh Micro Irrigation Project. That is a real programme with real material: technical notes on fertigation, acid treatment, system maintenance and peak water requirement, a component price list, a process-flow manual and biometric registration guidance. It is also where a micro-irrigation application in this state is made.
It is not the National Horticulture Mission.
Why that distinction costs money
Micro irrigation follows PDMC norms — Per Drop More Crop, under the Krishonnati Yojana — rather than the Mission's. Different scheme, different cost norms, different rates of assistance, different application. A grower who costs a drip system off the Mission's material, or a polyhouse off APMIP's, will get a number that nobody honours.
The national guidelines are explicit that micro irrigation is routed this way, which is why the Mission's own component list does not carry a drip rate. If you are irrigating, APMIP is the right door; for anything else it is the wrong document.
The doors that are shut
Two we would rather have used. The horticulture directorate's own domain does not resolve for us at all. And the site's MIDH link points at HORTNET, the national Mission application portal, which does not resolve for us either. The department's Government Orders page opens but renders no orders to a fetch: its list is assembled after loading, so there is nothing there to register.
So no Andhra Pradesh document is registered here. Not because the state publishes nothing — it plainly publishes a good deal — but because what we can reach is a different scheme, and what would carry the Mission's terms we cannot reach.
What to do
For irrigation, use APMIP; its material is detailed and it is the correct programme. For everything else the Mission covers — orchards, protected cultivation, post-harvest — use the national guides below, each figure naming the page it came from, and ask the district horticulture office which Government Orders are current.
If you can reach the directorate's own site or HORTNET from a network that sees them, and can tell us what they carry, that would move this state further than anything else.
