This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Mizoram figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Mizoram 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.
The Department of Horticulture gets one thing right that most departments do not: it calls the scheme by its correct name.
Why the name matters
Mizoram publishes its page for HMNEH — the Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan States — rather than for NHM. That is the accurate label for what reaches a grower here. NHM and HMNEH are both sub-schemes of MIDH, they share the national cost norms, and they are not the same programme: the funding split differs, and so can the components a state chooses to run.
Several states in the same position label their pages NHM regardless. That is not fatal — a grower who follows the NHM material will mostly land in the right place — but it is the kind of small inaccuracy that makes a reader distrust the rest, and it means a search for the right scheme name misses the state's own page.
What is on the page
Thirteen documents, and they are governance rather than scheme terms: acts and rules, allocation of business rules, budget allocation, the state's entitlement under Article 275(1) of the Constitution, disclosures under section 4(1)(b) of the Right to Information Act, and citizen's charters for 2020 and 2021-22 with their annexures.
No cost norm, rate or application window is among them. The citizen's charters are the most promising of the thirteen and have not been read: a charter is where a department states what an applicant is entitled to expect, including how long a decision should take, and that is worth knowing before you file anything.
What else the department runs
A State Bamboo Mission alongside the horticulture Mission. Bamboo sits awkwardly across forestry and horticulture in most states, and where a state runs a mission of its own for it, that is usually the better door for a bamboo project than the general horticulture components.
The one structural difference we can state with confidence
Under the national guidelines the Government of India contributes 90% of the outlay in North Eastern and Himalayan states against 60% elsewhere. That is the budget split between governments rather than a rate to a beneficiary. It is why a North Eastern state's scheme papers can differ from a plains state's, and it is not something a grower can claim.
What to do
Search for HMNEH rather than NHM when you are looking for Mizoram's own material — that alone will save you a wrong turn. Use the guides below for the components and the figures, each naming the page it came from. And if you can get the citizen's charter read for what it promises an applicant, that is the most useful unread document on this state's site.
