This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed an Uttarakhand figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what Uttarakhand 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Most out-of-date state pages cost a reader money by promising more than is available. Uttarakhand's does the opposite, which is why it is worth a page of its own.
What is published
The State Horticulture Mission publishes a six-page table of HMNEH cost norms, component by component, dated 2014-15. Its own document list offers 2010 and 2014-15 and nothing since. The Hindi is set in a font that decodes to nonsense, but the numerals are perfectly legible, so the table can be read even when the headings cannot.
What the comparison showed
We opened three documents together: Uttarakhand's table, the April 2014 national guidelines, and the April 2025 national guidelines this platform holds.
Uttarakhand's nursery norms are the 2014 national norms to the rupee. The state table gives a hi-tech nursery at ₹25.00 lakh per hectare with a ceiling of ₹100 lakh, and a one-hectare small nursery at ₹15.00 lakh per hectare with a loan made compulsory. Annexure V of the 2014 national guidelines gives a hi-tech nursery at ₹25.00 lakh per hectare limited to ₹100 lakh per unit, and a one-hectare small nursery at ₹15.00 lakh per hectare, credit linked for the private sector. The figures, the ceiling and the credit condition all match.
The current national guidelines give ₹30 lakh per hectare for a large nursery of 1 to 2 hectares and ₹20 lakh for a small nursery of 0.4 to 1 hectare. The state's published figures are therefore lower than the ones in force, and the area bands are different as well.
The 4-hectare cap on area expansion in the Uttarakhand table is a 2014-era limit too. The 2014 guidelines use 4 hectares per beneficiary across spices, aromatic plants and plantation crops; the current document uses 2 hectares for the components we have taken statements from.
One thing that is genuinely Uttarakhand's own
The table has three columns — plains areas, hilly areas, and scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, small and marginal farmers and women — with a different share in each, and its heading states a band of 25 to 55 per cent across components. The national annexure does not lay the money out in that form. That structure is a real feature of how a Himalayan state runs the Mission. What it is not is a current rate card.
What to do
Plan from the April 2025 national guidelines, which are what govern; the guides below explain them and every figure names the page it came from. Treat the 2014-15 table as history, and if you have been quoted a figure off it, ask for the order it comes from.
This is our reading of three documents, and we would rather be wrong about it. If the Mission has issued newer norms we have not found, tell us and we will publish them.
