Glossary

Formal recognition that a nursery or tissue culture unit meets the required standards.

The component that supports establishing new gardens or extending the area under a horticulture crop.

Paid at the end of a project after completion and verification, rather than at the start.

Assistance released after the project is completed and verified, rather than paid at the start.

The area a water source is designed to irrigate.

The upper limit of cost that the guidelines recognise when calculating subsidy for a component. It is not the market price of a project.

Assistance tied to a project financed by a bank or financial institution, released through the lending account.

Direct Benefit Transfer: paying assistance electronically into the beneficiary’s bank account instead of in cash.

The portion of a project cost that a scheme recognises when calculating assistance, after excluding items it does not cover.

A greenhouse cooled by drawing air across a wet pad with exhaust fans, giving closer climate control than natural ventilation.

Planting fruit trees at closer spacing than the traditional layout, with a minimum number of plants per hectare.

Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture: the umbrella horticulture mission of the Government of India, under which NHM and other sub-schemes sit.

A greenhouse that relies on roof and side vents rather than powered cooling.

National Centre for Cold-chain Development: the body whose standards and guidelines apply to cold-chain and post-harvest infrastructure.

National Horticulture Board: the body whose scheme supports larger, credit-linked commercial horticulture and cold storage projects.

National Horticulture Mission: the MIDH sub-scheme that applies to States and Union Territories outside the North Eastern and Himalayan region.

The percentage of the cost norm payable as assistance for a component, together with the maximum area, capacity or number of units allowed.

Per Drop More Crop: the micro-irrigation programme whose norms apply when drip irrigation is added to a horticulture component.

Pre-Engineered Building: a factory-fabricated steel building system used as an alternative to conventional civil construction for cold storage.

Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana: the organic farming scheme whose norms apply to organic farming components under the mission.

Support given against a whole integrated project with a bank loan, rather than against a single component at a fixed area rate.

Growing crops inside a structure such as a polyhouse, net house or tunnel that modifies the growing environment.

An orchard that has become old or unproductive and is a candidate for rejuvenation rather than replacement.

State Horticulture Mission: the state-level body that plans, implements, funds and monitors the mission within a State.

Sub-Mission on Agricultural Mechanization: the scheme whose norms apply to most farm machinery under the mission.

The maximum rupee amount of assistance for a project, regardless of the percentage.