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We have not yet verified Kerala'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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Kerala's own figures have now been read against the national norms, and the question this page raised has an answer: they are not a Kerala variation. They are the old national figures.
What was compared. The Kerala State Horticulture Mission publishes a scheme details page with rates against several components. This platform holds the national MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 and has taken 64 sourced statements from them. Madhya Pradesh's department publishes a full copy of the April 2014 edition of the same national document. All three were opened.
What it showed. Kerala's page matches the 2014 national text closely enough to leave little doubt about where it came from.
On rejuvenation, Kerala says assistance is 50% of cost limited to 2 hectares per beneficiary. Paragraph 7.20 of the 2014 national guidelines says assistance for rejuvenating or replanting senile plantations will be at 50% of the cost limited to 2 hectares per beneficiary. The wording is the same.
On organic farming, Kerala says additional assistance over and above the area expansion programme at ₹10,000 per hectare, limited to 4 hectares per beneficiary, spread over three years. Paragraph 7.30 of the 2014 guidelines gives additional assistance over and above the area expansion programme for a maximum of 4 hectares per beneficiary spread over three years, with assistance limited to ₹10,000 per hectare. Again the same.
On vermicompost, Kerala says ₹50,000 for a unit of 30 by 8 by 2.5 feet. The 2014 guidelines say 50% of cost subject to a maximum of ₹50,000 per beneficiary for a unit having size 30 by 8 by 2.5 feet. The dimensions match to the inch.
The current national guidelines say something different on the first two. Rejuvenation is 40% against cost norms of ₹10,000 and ₹40,000 per hectare, and organic farming carries no NHM figure at all — the guidelines send it to PKVY norms. The 4 hectare limit that appears twice on Kerala's page is a 2014-era limit; the current document uses 2 hectares for these components.
What this means for you. Do not plan a project in Kerala from the figures on that page, and do not treat them as Kerala paying more than the rest of the country. On the evidence they are a description of the scheme as it stood in 2014 that has not been revised since. The national guidelines of April 2025 are what govern, and the guides below explain them with the page of the document each figure came from.
This is our reading of three documents rather than a statement by the Mission, and Kerala may have its own reasons for the page as it stands. If you are about to commit money, ask the Mission directly which figures apply — and if they confirm a Kerala rate that genuinely differs from the national one, tell us, because that would be worth a page of its own.
What is still missing: any dated Kerala order setting these figures; whether the state tops the national norms up from its own budget, which states may do; and the district offices that receive applications.
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
Kerala State Horticulture Mission publishes scheme details with no date and no order reference. We checked the figures against the national guidelines and they match the April 2014 edition,...
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. Kerala 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. Kerala 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 Kerala's windows, budgets or variations.
Everyone quotes 50%. Worked at the 4,000 square metre limit against the April 2025 cost norms, the same rule returns about 50% on a net house, 35% on a naturally ventilated polyhouse and 16%...
We compared four state horticulture pages against the national guidelines. In every case the state's figures came from the April 2014 edition, replaced in April 2025. Treat a state figure as...
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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