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We have not yet verified Ladakh'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 Ladakh has started, and it found that Ladakh has a horticulture department of its own — which is why this page previously had no door and now has one. The union territory's portal lists it separately from agriculture, and that department's page is what is linked beside this.
Nothing from it is registered yet. The page answers and describes the department; it does not carry a scheme guideline, a cost norm or an order that a fetch can see.
Two things about Ladakh change which document a grower should be reading, and both come from papers this platform already holds. Ladakh is in the Himalayan group, so the Mission reaches it as HMNEH rather than NHM and the Government of India contributes 90% of the outlay rather than 60%. And it is one of the four union territories the National Horticulture Board's circular of 21 August 2026 names by name for the higher 45% rate of assistance rather than the 35% general rate. Neither is a Ladakh figure; both are national rules that land differently here.
Horticulture in Ladakh is also simply a different problem from horticulture in the plains — apricot, apple, seabuckthorn, a single short season and cold storage that has to work at altitude — and a state page that only recites national cost norms is not much use to a grower here. That is a gap this platform has not closed.
What does apply here meanwhile: the 64 statements we have taken from the MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 hold across the country — 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: anything Ladakh publishes of its own.
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
Ladakh has a horticulture department of its own, listed separately from agriculture. Nothing it publishes could be read yet. Two national rules apply here specifically: the Mission reaches L...
Not NHM, but HMNEH. 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. Ladakh is a Himalayan state or union territory, so the Mission reaches a grower here as the Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan States. The components and the national cost norms are the same document; the coverage and the share a grower pays are not, and nobody here has read the difference yet.
On the NHB side, the Board's circular of 21 August 2026 sets its rate of assistance at 45% for the North Eastern and Himalayan States, Scheduled Areas and four named Union Territories@if($isSpecUt), of which Ladakh is one@endif. A project here is in that higher band rather than the 35% general rate.
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 Ladakh'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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