This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Chhattisgarh figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Chhattisgarh 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.
Nearly every finding on this site about state horticulture pages is a warning. This one is not, and it is worth stating plainly because it shows the problem is fixable.
What Chhattisgarh publishes
The Department of Horticulture and Farm Forestry gives the Mission a page under central schemes. What hangs off it is the MIDH operational guidelines of 2025 — ninety-eight pages, the current national edition — alongside annual progress reports running back to 2014-15, and the oil palm and oilseeds programmes.
This platform already holds that national document and has taken 64 sourced statements from it, so the guidelines are not new to us. The fact that Chhattisgarh points its growers at the current edition is what is worth saying. Madhya Pradesh, next door, still offers the April 2014 one under the same word: "Guidelines".
What a grower gets from that
Correct components, correct cost norms, correct rates of assistance, and a document with a date on it. That is most of what anyone needs to cost a project, and it is more than most state pages provide.
What is still missing
Any Chhattisgarh figure. Nothing on that page says what the state adds to the national norms, whether it tops any component up from its own budget, or when an application window opens. The progress reports say what was spent, not what is offered — a spend figure tells you the scheme ran, not what you can claim.
Nor is there a Chhattisgarh order, circular or state scheme document of any kind, and the district offices that receive applications are not named. So a grower here knows the national terms and not the local counter, which is the opposite of the Gujarat problem, where the counter is reachable and the terms are not.
One national rule that decides the shape of the money here
The Government of India contributes 60% of the outlay for developmental programmes in all states except those in the North East and the Himalayas, where its share is 90%. Chhattisgarh is in the 60:40 group. That is the budget split between governments, not a rate of assistance to a grower — a reader who reads it as 60% off a polyhouse has misread it.
What to do
Read the guidelines Chhattisgarh publishes; they are the right ones. Use the guides below for the components and figures, each naming the page it came from. Then ask the district horticulture office what is open, because that is the part the website does not carry.
