This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Ladakh figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Ladakh 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.
Ladakh has a horticulture department of its own, which is why this page has a door where it previously had none. The union territory's portal lists it separately from agriculture, and that department's page is what is linked beside this.
What we could read
The page answers and describes the department. It does not carry a scheme guideline, a cost norm or an order that a fetch can see, so nothing from Ladakh is registered here.
Two national rules that land here specifically
Both come from documents this platform already holds, and neither is a Ladakh figure.
Ladakh is in the Himalayan group, so the Mission reaches it as HMNEH rather than NHM, and the Government of India contributes 90% of the outlay rather than 60%. That is the split between governments, not a rate of assistance to anyone.
Ladakh is one of the four union territories the National Horticulture Board's circular of 21 August 2026 names by name for the higher 45% rate of assistance rather than the 35% general rate. That one does reach a beneficiary — but it is an NHB rule, under the Board's own schemes, not the Mission's, so it applies to a Board project and not to a Mission component.
Keeping those two apart is the practical point of this page. They are different schemes, different documents, different counters, and the 45% belongs to only one of them.
What this platform does not have
Horticulture in Ladakh is simply a different problem from horticulture in the plains. Apricot, apple, seabuckthorn, a single short season, and cold storage that has to work at altitude — the components exist in the national guidelines, but a cost norm written for the plains is not obviously the right number for building at altitude in a single short season.
A state page that only recites national cost norms is not much use to a grower here. That is a gap we have not closed and are not going to paper over: the national figures are what govern until Ladakh publishes something of its own, and they may sit awkwardly against what a project here actually costs.
What to do
Ask the department directly what it runs and what is open — with no published scheme material, that is the only reliable route. Use the guides below for the national components and figures, each naming the page it came from. And if you are dealing with the National Horticulture Board rather than the Mission, check the 45% rate applies to your scheme before assuming it.
Anything Ladakh publishes of its own is still missing here. If you have seen it, tell us.
