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We have not yet verified Karnataka's own NHM documents. The national framework still applies here, and it is below — with the state's own door, and a way to ask us to read the rest.
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Research on Karnataka has started, and the state's own scheme material has now been found. An earlier version of this note said the department published nothing about the Mission. That was wrong, and the correction is worth stating plainly: the material is there, on the department's Central Sector Schemes page, which we had not opened.
What is there: the Department of Horticulture, Government of Karnataka, lists the National Horticulture Mission as a central sector scheme with an allocation of ₹14,000.00 lakh, and links twenty-two component documents beneath it — area expansion, nursery, mushroom, rejuvenation, bee-keeping, cold supply chain, post-harvest management, mechanisation, tissue culture, mulching, weed mat, anti-bird net, farm ponds, integrated nutrient and pest management, and more. That index is now registered as a source.
The most useful of them is registered as a source in its own right: an annexure headed "Area Expansion Programme — Unit Cost and Recommended Subsidy Assistance of Different Horticulture crops under Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) 2025-26", twelve pages, in English, dated 23 May 2025. It sets out twenty-four crop tables covering fruits, new orchards at regular, high and ultra-high density, vegetables, flowers, spices, and aromatic and medicinal plants, and it does something the national guidelines do not: it breaks each unit cost into its parts — planting material, land preparation, organic matter, inorganic fertilisers, plant protection chemicals, and integrated nutrient and pest management inputs — and shows the farmer's share beside the assistance.
Nobody has read it against the national guidelines yet, so nothing on this page describes how Karnataka differs. What can be said is that the two documents appear to be describing the same scheme rather than competing ones.
The programme guideline that accompanies it is in Kannada, and the copy the department serves has a font mapping our tools cannot read, so its text comes out as nonsense. It needs a Kannada reader with the file open in front of them, not a machine.
What does apply here meanwhile: NHM is a national scheme, and the 64 statements we have taken from the MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 hold in every state — the components the Mission supports, the national cost norms and the general rates of assistance. Those are the guides listed below, and every figure in them names the page it came from.
What is still missing: the annexure read line by line against the national norms; the Kannada programme guideline read at all; any order that opens or closes an application window; and the district offices that receive applications. Until then this page cannot tell you whether you can apply today or where.
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
Karnataka publishes the Mission on its central sector schemes page with an allocation of ₹14,000 lakh and twenty-two component documents. The most useful is an English annexure of 23 May 202...
NHM. The MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 say the National Horticulture Mission covers all States and Union Territories except those in the North Eastern and Himalayan region, and all districts in the States it applies to. Karnataka is outside that region, so NHM is the sub-scheme an application here sits under, and the national cost norms in the guides below are the ones to work from.
On the NHB side, the 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 four named Union Territories. Karnataka is a general area, so 35% is the rate to plan against — though a Scheduled Area within the state may not be.
The rules quoted here are the national ones. Which states sit inside the North Eastern and Himalayan region is our reading of them rather than a list either document prints, so treat it as our wording and confirm anything you are about to spend money on.
NHM is a national scheme run by the state. These guides explain the national rules; they do not confirm Karnataka's windows, budgets or variations.
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A large nursery of 1 to 2 hectares carries a cost norm up to ₹30 lakh per hectare at 40% for the private sector; a small nursery of 0.4 to 1 hectare carries ₹20 lakh per hectare at 50%. Both...
INM and IPM carry a cost norm of ₹5,000 per hectare at 30%, up to 2 hectares per beneficiary. That 30% is the lowest rate in the scheme. Organic farming has no NHM figure at all; the guideli...
Most machinery under NHM defers to SMAM norms rather than carrying its own figure. The clearest exception is a power tiller up to 8 BHP, costed at ₹1.0 lakh per unit with a maximum of ₹0.40...
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