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Event · Horticulture and protected cultivation

Horti Agri India Expo 2026, New Delhi

The largest northern horticulture and protected-cultivation exhibition, at Yashobhoomi in March.

  • 12–14 Mar 2026
  • Yashobhoomi India International Convention & Expo Centre, Dwarka, New Delhi
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What it is

A horticulture and protected-cultivation exhibition at Yashobhoomi in Dwarka, over three days in March. The organiser bills it as North India’s biggest on protected cultivation, which is the component this platform has the most sourced material on.

Why this one is worth planning around

Protected cultivation is where the difference between the headline rate and the real one is widest. The Mission assists at 50% of a cost norm, and for a fan and pad greenhouse the market price is more than three times that norm — so the same 50% returns about 16% of what you will actually spend. The full arithmetic is here, worked at the 4,000 square metre per-beneficiary limit.

Which means the useful thing to do at a show like this is not to find the cheapest structure. It is to find out where your quote sits relative to the norm, because that gap is the part nobody subsidises.

Take three numbers with you

  • ₹950 per square metre — the cost norm for a naturally ventilated polyhouse in the top area band.
  • ₹1,450 — the same for fan and pad.
  • ₹710 — a tubular or rectangular shade net house, the one structure whose market price sits below its norm.

Each of those is from the MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025, and the sliding scale behind them names the page it came from.

A note on where you are

Yashobhoomi is in Delhi, and Delhi is one of two places on this site with no horticulture department we could confirm — the word means three different things here, and the bodies that answer to it mostly run parks. That is worth reading before you assume the venue’s state is the one that will process your file. Apply where you farm.

Start with the scheme guides

NHB subsidy guide Commercial horticulture projects, protected cultivation above one acre, and cold storage from 5,001 MT. Open NHM subsidy guide The scheme that covers most states and union territories, component by component. Open NHM by state What we have verified for your state, and what is still an open question. Open Official documents The guidelines and circulars behind every explanation, with the version we checked. Open Glossary Cost norm, back-ended, credit-linked and the rest, in everyday language. Open Ask a question Private by default. No account, no phone number, answered with the source attached. Open

The questions people ask us most

Myth versus rule Does NHM give 50% subsidy? Rates run from 30% to 50% depending on the component, and every one carries a ceiling. Read the answer Start here What a cost norm actually means The upper limit used to calculate subsidy, not the price of your project. The single most misread number in the scheme. Read the answer Protected cultivation Polyhouse subsidy under NHM Area-wise cost norms for both polyhouse types, and the 4,000 square metre ceiling that shapes the project. Read the answer Choosing a route NHB or NHM: which applies? Project size usually decides. Where an NHM ceiling stops, the NHB route begins. Read the answer