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NHM in Punjab
We have not yet verified Punjab'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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What we know so far
Research on Punjab has started and has reached the department without reaching its paper.
The Department of Horticulture's site answers and carries a news ticker, and beyond that a fetch sees four links and no documents at all — no schemes page, no guidelines, no orders, nothing to download. Whatever Punjab publishes about the Mission is not on the page a fetch receives, so nothing is registered below.
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 happens next: opening the site in a browser to see what a person is shown that we are not, and asking the department directly for its current horticulture scheme guidelines if the site does not carry them. If you know where Punjab publishes them, tell us.
What Punjab publishes
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
The Department of Horticulture's site answers and carries a news ticker. Beyond that a fetch sees four links and no documents at all — no schemes page, no guidelines, no orders, nothing to d...
Awaiting verification
17 Oct 20263 min read
Which scheme reaches Punjab
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. Punjab 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. Punjab 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.
The national framework that applies in Punjab
NHM is a national scheme run by the state. These guides explain the national rules; they do not confirm Punjab's windows, budgets or variations.
National Horticulture Mission (NHM / MIDH) · Protected cultivationGuide
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...
Awaiting verification
17 Oct 20265 min read
National Horticulture Mission (NHM / MIDH) · Production of planting materialGuide
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...
Source verified by our team
17 Oct 20262 min read
National Horticulture Mission (NHM / MIDH) · INM / IPM and plant healthGuide
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...
Source verified by our team
17 Oct 20262 min read
National Horticulture Mission (NHM / MIDH) · Horticulture mechanisationGuide
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...