This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a Puducherry figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Puducherry 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.
Most out-of-date pages give you no way to tell they are out of date. Puducherry's gives you one, in a single number, and it is worth knowing how to read it.
The number
The Department of Agriculture publishes a centrally sponsored schemes page with the Mission described on it. That description says the Government of India contributes 85% of the total outlay for developmental programmes in all states except those in the North East and the Himalayas, with 15% from the state, and 100% for the North Eastern and Himalayan states.
Those are the figures from the original MIDH guidelines. The current national guidelines — the 2025 edition, which this platform holds and which Chhattisgarh's department publishes in full — say something different: 60% from the Government of India and 40% from the state, and 90:10 for the North Eastern and Himalayan states. We are not inferring that from one document; both were opened and read.
What that number is not
It is not a rate of assistance to a grower, and nobody should plan a project around it either way. It is how two governments divide a budget between themselves. A reader who sees "85% from the Government of India" and thinks it means 85% of a polyhouse has misread it, and the page does not go out of its way to prevent that.
What it tells you instead
It dates the page. A description written against a superseded edition and not revised since is a description whose other statements were also written then. So nothing else on that page should be assumed current — not the component list, not the conditions, not the offices named.
This is the most useful thing a single verifiable number can do on a government page: fix its vintage. If you can find one figure on a state page that you can check against a dated national document, you learn how much of the rest to trust.
One thing a union territory does not get automatically
The National Horticulture Board's circular of 21 August 2026 sets its rate of assistance at 35% in general areas and 45% in the North Eastern and Himalayan states, Scheduled Areas and specified union territories. It is easy to read that as covering any union territory, and to assume Puducherry qualifies. It does not.
The circular names the territories it means: the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Puducherry is not among them, so a Board project here attracts the general 35% rate.
That is worth stating plainly, because the assumption is a natural one and acting on it would overstate a project's funding by ten percentage points. It is also an NHB rule rather than a Mission one: it governs Board schemes, not Mission components.
What to do
Take the money from the April 2025 national guidelines, which the guides below explain with every figure naming its page. Use the department's page for the office and the contact, and check anything else on it before relying on it.
