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We have not yet verified Lakshadweep'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 Lakshadweep has started, and the Directorate of Agriculture confirms in its own words that the Mission runs here.
Its page lists the central sector schemes it implements, and the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture is named among them alongside PM-KISAN and the Kisan Credit Card. It publishes an online document repository and gives a postal address and telephone numbers at Kavaratti. That is the door, and it is recorded here.
No scheme document was found on it, so nothing is registered below.
One national rule lands here specifically: Lakshadweep is one of the four union territories the National Horticulture Board's circular of 21 August 2026 names for the higher 45% rate of assistance rather than the 35% general rate. That is an NHB rule rather than a Mission one, and it is not a Lakshadweep figure — it is a national circular that names this territory.
Horticulture in Lakshadweep is coconut before anything else, and the national guidelines route coconut through the Coconut Development Board, which they fund in full rather than on the usual split. A grower here is likely to be dealing with that board rather than with the Mission's general components, and this platform has not covered it.
What does apply here meanwhile: the 64 statements we have taken from the MIDH operational guidelines of April 2025 hold across the country. Those are the guides listed below, and every figure in them names the page it came from.
What is still missing: what the directorate's document repository holds, and whether the Coconut Development Board rather than the Mission is the right door for most growers here.
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
The Directorate of Agriculture names the Mission among the central schemes it implements. But horticulture here is coconut before anything else, and the national guidelines route coconut thr...
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. Lakshadweep 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 45% for the North Eastern and Himalayan States, Scheduled Areas and four named Union Territories@if($isSpecUt), of which Lakshadweep 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 Lakshadweep'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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