This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Lakshadweep figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Lakshadweep 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.
Lakshadweep is one of the few places where the department confirms in its own words that the Mission runs here — and where the Mission is probably not the door most growers want.
What the directorate says
The Department of Agriculture lists the central sector schemes it implements, and the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture is named among them, alongside PM-KISAN and the Kisan Credit Card. It publishes an online document repository and gives a postal address and telephone numbers at Kavaratti.
That is the door, and it is recorded here. No scheme document was found on it, so nothing is registered.
Why coconut changes the answer
Horticulture in Lakshadweep is coconut before anything else, and coconut is the business of the Coconut Development Board — a separate body alongside the Mission rather than a part of it. So the Mission's component list is not where a coconut grower here will find their scheme.
Mark what that last sentence is. We have recorded no statement from the national guidelines about how coconut is routed or how the Board is funded, so it is a pointer rather than a sourced fact — good enough to send you to the Board first, not good enough to budget against. Every figure on this site names the document and page it came from; this does not, which is why it is flagged.
That has a practical consequence worth stating plainly: a grower here is likely to be dealing with that Board rather than with the Mission's general components, and the Board has its own schemes, its own terms and its own application. Reading the Mission's component list and finding nothing that fits a coconut holding is not a failure of the search — it is the guidelines sending you somewhere else.
This platform has not covered the Coconut Development Board. That is a real gap for this territory specifically, and we would rather name it than let a reader assume the Mission material here is complete for them.
One national rule that names this territory
Lakshadweep is 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 the 35% general rate. That is an NHB rule rather than a Mission one, and it is not a Lakshadweep figure — it is a national circular that happens to name this territory. It applies to Board schemes, not to Mission components.
What to do
If your holding is coconut, start with the Coconut Development Board rather than the Mission. If you are doing something else — vegetables, spices, protected cultivation — the national guides below carry the components and figures, each naming the page it came from. Either way the directorate at Kavaratti is reachable by post and telephone, which on a site with no published scheme document is the most reliable route to an answer.
What is still missing here: what the directorate's document repository holds, and whether the Coconut Development Board is in fact the right door for most growers. Both are worth someone's time.
