This is what we have read, not what the state pays. Nobody has yet confirmed a West Bengal figure against the national norms, and this page does not give you one. It tells you what West Bengal 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.
Where a state files horticulture tells you something about what it thinks horticulture is for, and West Bengal's filing is worth reading.
The pairing
Horticulture here sits with food processing, under the Department of Food Processing Industries and Horticulture. The pairing itself is not rare: Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand all run horticulture alongside food processing. What is different in West Bengal is the order of the words. Everywhere else horticulture leads and processing is appended; here processing comes first, which frames the subject as an industry with a supply chain rather than as a branch of farming.
That is a defensible way to see it in this state. West Bengal is a major horticulture producer — potato, vegetables, pineapple, mango — and for all four the binding constraint is usually not growing the crop but storing, moving and processing it. Potato in particular lives or dies by cold storage.
If that framing is right, then the Mission components most likely to matter here are the post-harvest ones — cold storage, pack houses, ripening chambers, primary processing — rather than area expansion. Those components are in the national guidelines and the guides below carry their figures.
We should be careful about how far to push this: it is a reasonable inference from where the department sits and what the state grows, not something the department has told us. Treat it as a place to start looking rather than a finding.
What is on the site
Some fifty links, of which two are documents. None of them is a scheme page, a guideline, an order or a set of cost norms that a fetch can see. So nothing from West Bengal is registered here.
West Bengal is a large horticulture state and the absence here is much more likely to be ours than the state's. A state producing at this scale issues sanction orders and runs application windows as a matter of routine; we have not found where it publishes them.
What to do
Start from the post-harvest components if your problem is storage or processing, and read the national cold storage material carefully — the Mission caps its cold storage support at a capacity above which the National Horticulture Board takes over, which is a distinction that catches people out in exactly this state.
Use the guides below for the components and figures, each naming the page it came from, and ask the district office which windows are open. If you know where the department publishes its orders, tell us.
