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We have not yet verified Sikkim'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 Sikkim has started, and this state too now has a confirmed department where it had none.
Horticulture here has a department of its own — the Horticulture and Cash Crop Development Department — which is unusual, and it reflects what Sikkim grows: large cardamom, Sikkim mandarin, ginger, kiwi, pear and cut flowers rather than the field crops most states organise around. The department's page on the state portal is the door recorded here, and the agriculture department runs a substantial portal alongside it.
Nothing is registered below. Neither site yielded a scheme guideline, a cost norm or an order to a fetch.
One thing about Sikkim is worth stating even though it is not a Mission figure: the state declared itself fully organic in 2016, and its horticulture support has been shaped around that ever since. A grower reading the national organic-farming component here should know that the guidelines send that component to PKVY norms rather than setting an NHM figure, and that Sikkim's own programme sits on top of whatever PKVY provides.
Sikkim is in the North Eastern region, so the Mission reaches a grower as HMNEH rather than NHM, and the Government of India contributes 90% of the outlay rather than 60%.
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: everything Sikkim-specific. The department is confirmed and nothing it publishes has been read.
Written from the state's own pages and documents. Not yet reviewed, and not a statement of what the state pays.
Sikkim has a Horticulture and Cash Crop Development Department of its own, which is unusual and reflects what it grows. It declared itself fully organic in 2016 — and the Mission's organic c...
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. Sikkim is one of the eight North Eastern states, 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 Sikkim 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 Sikkim'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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