This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Karnataka figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Karnataka 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 every state we have looked at, Karnataka publishes the most usable document. It is worth knowing what is in it, and equally what is not.
Where the department puts it
The Department of Horticulture lists the National Horticulture Mission on its central sector schemes page, with an allocation of ₹14,000.00 lakh against it, and links twenty-two component documents beneath — area expansion, nursery, mushroom, rejuvenation, bee-keeping, cold supply chain, post-harvest management, mechanisation, tissue culture, mulching, weed mat, anti-bird net, farm ponds, integrated nutrient and pest management, and more.
An earlier version of our Karnataka page said the department published nothing about the Mission. That was wrong, and the correction matters: the material was one click inside a menu we had not opened. If you have been told Karnataka publishes nothing, that is not true.
The document worth opening
One of those twenty-two is different from the rest. It is an annexure of twelve pages, in English, dated 23 May 2025, headed Unit Cost and Recommended Subsidy Assistance of Different Horticulture crops under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) 2025-26, and carrying the reference DH-NHM0NHMT/21/2025-NHM.
It sets out twenty-four crop tables: fruits, including the cost-intensive group of strawberry, dragon fruit and grape; banana and pineapple by suckers and by tissue culture; new orchards at regular, high and ultra-high density; then vegetables, flowers, spices, and aromatic and medicinal plants.
What it does that the national guidelines do not
It breaks each unit cost into its parts. For strawberry, against a unit cost of ₹2,00,000 per hectare, it itemises planting material, land preparation, organic matter, inorganic fertilisers, plant protection chemicals and integrated nutrient and pest management inputs — and prints the farmer's share beside the assistance on every line.
That is genuinely useful when you are planning. The national document gives you a ceiling; this one shows you what the ceiling is made of, which tells you where your own quotation is likely to run over.
Across all twenty-four tables the assistance is 40% and the farmer's share 60%. That is the national rate for area expansion in general areas, so on this component Karnataka is applying the national norm rather than varying it. Its strawberry and dragon fruit unit costs match the national figures this site holds.
What is not in it
No application window. No district office. No statement of whether Karnataka tops any component up from its own budget. The programme guideline published alongside it is in Kannada, and the copy the department serves uses a font that decodes to nonsense in our tools, so it needs a Kannada reader with the file open rather than a machine.
And nobody has yet read the annexure line by line against the national norms. We have opened it, confirmed what it is, and registered it. Turning it into statements you can act on is the next piece of work.
What to do with this
Use the national cost norms in the guides below for the numbers, and use Karnataka's annexure for the composition — what a project of that kind is expected to be made of. Before you commit money, ask the district horticulture office to confirm the current year's figures and whether a window is open, because neither is on the page.
