• Under the “National Horticulture Mission (NHM)” (The sub schemes of “Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)”) scheme, the financial assistance for establishing a small nursery is provided through the respective “State Horticulture Missions (SHM)”.

Apply In-Person:

1. Based on the sanction / availability of funds, the respective state horticulture department periodically invites application for availing financial assistance to establish small nursery. Any potential applicant/farmer/beneficiary shall contact the respective Horticulture Officer of the concerned district or the authority as per the notification.
2. Contact link
3. Go to the respective office and meet the designated authority. The applicant shall get the advice from the authority to apply for this subsidy.
4. Please collect the application form or write on a plain A4 sheet as advised.
5. Please complete the application form with the mandatory details. Attach the required documents as per the “Required Documents” section of this page and submit it to the designated receiving authority in person. Please submit the application set in triplicate.
6. On receiving the application, the concerned authority will check the application details and documents.
7. If all are in place, the application will be accepted and an acknowledgement slip with a serial number will be issued. Please keep it safe for future reference.
8. ”SMS” triggered update on application status will be sent to the applicant’s mobile.
9. This application and documents will be verified by the department. Once the verification is over, the application will be forwarded to the respective district technical committee. This committee will conduct a preliminary appraisal to shortlist the applicant’s.
10. The department will intimate the shortlisted applicant about the next set of action through “SMS” or as per the applicable norms.
11. As notified, the applicant shall visit the respective office, submit the detailed project report along with other details and follow the department’s guidelines.
12. The authority will collect the submitted details and provide a probable date for getting approval.
13. These details will be forwarded to the concerned team for validation. The respective team will make a case study of the proposal based on the application, details, documents and detailed project report.
14. The valid proposals will be forwarded to the executive committee. The executive committee will evaluate the proposal. Once satisfied, the proposal will be sanctioned for the subsidy as per applicable norms.
15. Thus, the sanction of subsidy approved will be notified to the applicant through ‘SMS’ or as per applicable norms.
16. The applicant shall visit the respective office as notified and follow their guidelines.
17. The assistance is provided as credit linked back ended subsidy or as per the applicable norms for the approved projects.
18. The applicant should implement the project within two years from the date of sanction.
19. The financial institution will inform the SHM for a joint inspection, to assess the completion of the project. Based on the outcome (the completion of the project in accordance with the guidelines of NHM) of the inspection, the payment of back-ended subsidy will be made as per the terms.
20. The whole process shall be completed within the financial year or as per the advised time period (depending on the completion of the project certified by the respective “SHM”).
21. Please refer to the “Fees” section of this page for more details on fee requirements.

NOTE:

• The department of horticulture announces plans for disbursement of such subsidies through electronic and printing media. It is advised to regularly to follow the local newspaper for such announcements.

• Application form
• Residence proof of applicant (Ration card / Passport / Telephone bill / Bank passbook / Aadhaar card)
• Identity proof of applicant (Voter ID / Passport / Aadhaar card / Driving licence)
• Nursery licence
• Registration certificate (if the applicant is a firm/society)
• Articles and memorandum of association (if the applicant is a firm/society)
• Audited statements of accounts for last three successive years
• Document proof of land ownership (Registered sale agreement, patta, Chitta)
• Registered lease agreement (for leased land)
• Project report (with forecast of income for next 3 quarters, showing expenditure and income)
• Copy of Bank pass book with applicant's account details
• Loan sanction letter from the financial institution as per requirement
• Sketch of the area marked for the nursery
• PAN card as per requirement
• Caste certificate
• Self-declaration
• Undertaking (that the nursery has not received subsidy from any other source)
• Aadhaar card

Note:

• Apart from the above listed documents, the authorities may ask for additional information or document. Please provide them for smooth processing.

Directorate Of Horticulture, Department of Agriculture, Bihar,
Address- 2nd Floor, Krishi Bhawan,
Mithapur, Patna, Bihar,
Pin-800001
Phone- 0612 2547772
Email- dir-bhds-bih@nic.in
Contact link

National Horticulture Board,
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare,
Government of India,
85, Institutional Area, Sector – 18,
Gurugram - 122015 (Haryana).
Telephone: 0124-2342992, 2347441, 2342989-90
FAX: 2342991
Email: md@nhb.gov.in
Contact link
Contact of “National Horticulture Board Area Officers”: link

Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH)
248A, Krishi Bhawan, Dr. Rajendra Prasad road,
New Delhi – 110001.
Phone: 011-23384309, 23382508
Email: jsmidh-agri@gov.in
Contact Link

• Applicant should be a citizen of India.
• Those who are 18 years and above are eligible to apply.
• Government departments and institutions, Cooperative societies, Farmer groups and Individual farmers are eligible to apply for this scheme.
• The small nurseries with size of 1 acre of land are eligible to apply.
• The land should be free from encumbrances, litigation and attachments.
• The private entrepreneur needs to get bank loan for the total project cost.

• In case of public sector (on government establishments) applicant, they are entitled to get 100 % subsidies on expenditure. Others are entitled to get 50 % subsidies on expenditure.
• Please use the following link for subsidy details and the pattern of assistance provided: link please refer to the page number 55.

• This approved project should be implemented within two years or as per the timeline advised by the sanctioning body.
• The subsidy benefit will be passed on to the respective financial institution’s bank account against the loan availed or as per terms as applicable.

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• The whole process shall be completed within the financial year or as per the advised time period (depending on the completion of the project certified by the respective “SHM”).

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external
websites.
Please remove the "&" inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe,
myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M%22 Video ID is "Y0US7oR_t3M".

• The subsidy released will be withdrawn, if the project is not being implemented as per the guidelines or schedule of implementation.
• Do not submit fake documents as a proof to get this sanction.
• Incomplete application will be rejected.
• Avoid spelling mistakes while filling the application form.
• Don’t forget to take all the originals of the document along with copy at the time of visiting the department authorities.
• Ensure that application is complete before submission.

• Name of the nursery unit
• Address of the nursery unit
• Activities performed in the nursery
• Name of the applicant
• Residential Address of the applicant
• District
• State
• Pin Code
• Date of application
• Applicant’s Father’s / Husband’s name
• Village
• Block / Taluk
• Total extent of the land
• Survey number
• Caste
• Email ID
• Mobile number
• Bank account number
• PAN number as per requirement
• Passport size photograph of the applicant (3 numbers)
• Aadhaar number

• The nursery is aimed at providing availability of quality and true-to-type planting materials (seeds, saplings etc.) for a successful crop production.
• The objective of the scheme is to increase the availability of good quality planting materials for different type of crops by involving aspirants in the agricultural field.

• For setting up nurseries-public, private or individual land can be used.
• Various private financing institutes, Private Credit Co-operative Societies, are funding the establishment of horticultural nurseries.

Please explain what are the other uses of this document / certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

• Follow the given link for additional information Link

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