This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Madhya Pradesh figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Madhya Pradesh 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.
A department that publishes nothing is easy to spot. A department that publishes the wrong edition is not, because the page looks complete.
What sits on the page
The Directorate of Horticulture and Food Processing gives the Mission a page of its own under central schemes. Three things hang off it, and the difference between them is the whole story.
The document it calls "Guidelines" is not a Madhya Pradesh document at all. It is the national MIDH Operational Guidelines of April 2014, sixty-eight pages, published by the Horticulture Division of what was then the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation. This platform holds the April 2025 edition of the same national document, eleven years newer. Anyone costing a project off the copy on the state site is costing it off a superseded book.
The two "details" documents are Hindi progress tables — new orchards, hybrid vegetable area expansion and the rest — showing target against achievement and money allotted against money spent. They record what the state did, not what it will pay you, and the last year in them is 2018-19.
The circulars page is thinner still. Its most recent dated order is from March 2020.
What is actually current
The counter. Madhya Pradesh takes horticulture applications through its own farmer subsidy tracking system, MPFSTS, linked from that page, and the department posted in July 2025 that the Mission's private-sector project component had been published for 2025-26. So there is an open channel and there is activity in 2025. What there is not, on the public site, is a current statement of what the state pays.
Why an old edition is the more dangerous kind of error
Nothing on that 2014 book is false; it was the governing document when it was written. It names real components and describes a real scheme. What it does is anchor you to figures that have moved, and it does it while looking authoritative — a national document, on the department's own site, under the word "Guidelines".
Madhya Pradesh is not alone. Puducherry describes the Mission using the funding split from the original guidelines, and Uttarakhand publishes cost norms from 2014-15. Chhattisgarh, next door, publishes the current 2025 edition. The difference between neighbours is not policy; it is who last updated a page.
What to do
Use the April 2025 national guidelines for the money — the guides below explain them, and every figure names the page it came from. Use MPFSTS for the application. And when the department quotes you a figure, ask which edition it comes from before you build a costing around it.
