This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Jammu and Kashmir figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Jammu and Kashmir 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.
Of all the state pages we have read, this is the one that most obviously says something is there that we could not pick up.
What the department announces
The Horticulture Department runs a live notice strip, and as retrieved it announced: revised MIDH guidelines for 2026-27 released and available to download; online nursery registration open until 31 March 2026; applications invited for high density apple plantation for 2026-27; a beneficiary list published for the Pampore zone under the National Saffron Mission; and district review meetings under the Holistic Agriculture Development Programme.
Every one of those headlines is attached to a link that goes nowhere. The anchors are placeholders, so there is no address to fetch, cite or register.
A revised guideline for the coming year is exactly the document a state horticulture page should carry. It is announced rather than published, and the difference matters: an announcement tells you a document exists, and only the document tells you what it says.
The structure behind it
Jammu and Kashmir does not run horticulture from one office, and that is worth knowing before you go looking. There are two divisional directorates, one for Jammu and one for Kashmir; a separate High Density Plantation Mission; and the Holistic Agriculture Development Programme alongside the national Mission. Of those, the Jammu directorate and the HADP site answer; the Kashmir directorate and the plantation mission do not resolve for us at all.
So a grower here has four possible doors rather than one, and which is right depends on the crop and the programme. High density apple is not the same counter as a general Mission component.
Two national rules that land here specifically
Jammu and Kashmir is in the Himalayan group, so the Mission reaches a grower as HMNEH rather than NHM, and under the national guidelines the Government of India's share of the outlay is 90% rather than 60%. It is also one of the four union territories the National Horticulture Board's circular of 21 August 2026 names for the higher 45% rate of assistance rather than 35%.
Neither is a state figure. Both change which document you should be reading.
What to do
Ask the department for the 2026-27 revised guidelines it says it has released — by email or in person at a divisional directorate. That is one request away, and it would make this one of the best-documented states on the site. Meanwhile the national guides below carry the figures that govern, each naming the page it came from.
If you obtain that guideline, send it to us. It is among the most valuable missing documents in our state research.
