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MIDH support for mushroom units

Current mushroom production, spawn, compost and small-unit cost norms with rate, geography and credit-linkage conditions.

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Spawned straw mushroom bags kept on a wooden shelf next to a bamboo onion-storage rack inside an adivasi (tribal) house, Odisha, India.
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MIDH support for mushroom units

Read the exact component and normative basis before estimating indicative assistance.

Policy record: activeApplications: unknownLatest attached source check: 2026-08-23

Versioned policy record

Operational Guidelines 2025, dated 31 December 2025

Policy record: activeApplications: unknownLatest attached source check: 2026-08-23
Authority
Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare through state and implementing agencies
Publication
2025-12-31
Effective from
Not established in the source record
Application evidence
No national evidence was located that proves every state is currently accepting applications.

Mushroom fit

Read the activity boundary before the percentage.

Direct fit for production, spawn, compost and low-cost mushroom units, subject to component, applicant, geography, conditional credit linkage, release procedure and implementing-agency checks.

Components

Cost norm, rate and assistance form stay separate.

conditional credit linkagePages 28 and 49

Mushroom production unit

Infrastructure for mushroom production

Norm
₹30,00,000
General rate
40%
Special rate
50%
Unit cap
1
  • Annexure V describes private-sector assistance as credit-linked and back-ended
  • The general provision says credit linkage for projects up to ₹30 lakh may be optional; confirm how the implementing agency applies it to the actual project cost
  • Where the optional-credit procedure applies, subsidy is released in two instalments through TRA/Escrow/SRF based on progress after a satisfactory joint inspection
  • Special geography rate applies only when the official location condition is established
  • Public-sector assistance uses a different pattern
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conditional credit linkagePages 28 and 49

Spawn making unit

Infrastructure for mushroom spawn production

Norm
₹20,00,000
General rate
40%
Special rate
50%
Unit cap
1
  • Annexure V describes private-sector assistance as credit-linked and back-ended
  • The general provision says credit linkage for projects up to ₹30 lakh may be optional; confirm how the implementing agency applies it to the actual project cost
  • Where the optional-credit procedure applies, subsidy is released in two instalments through TRA/Escrow/SRF based on progress after a satisfactory joint inspection
  • Technical and quality compliance remains project specific
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conditional credit linkagePages 28 and 49

Compost making unit

Infrastructure for mushroom compost production

Norm
₹30,00,000
General rate
40%
Special rate
50%
Unit cap
1
  • Annexure V describes private-sector assistance as credit-linked and back-ended
  • The general provision says credit linkage for projects up to ₹30 lakh may be optional; confirm how the implementing agency applies it to the actual project cost
  • Where the optional-credit procedure applies, subsidy is released in two instalments through TRA/Escrow/SRF based on progress after a satisfactory joint inspection
  • Environmental and local approvals remain separate
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grantPage 49

Low-cost or small-scale production structure

A 200 square foot mushroom production structure and inputs

Norm
₹2,00,000
General rate
50%
Special rate
Not applicable
Unit cap
5
  • Maximum five units per beneficiary
  • Norm applies per 200 square foot structure
  • Availability and application process must be confirmed with the implementing agency
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Primary sources

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current2026-08-23

MIDH Operational Guidelines 2025, guidelines dated 31 December 2025

The guideline establishes cost norms and assistance patterns. It does not prove that applications are open in a particular state or that a project will be approved.

Authority
Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Reference
Guideline page 17 and Annexure V page 49
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Editorial update: 2026-08-23. Independent technical review is not recorded for this entry.

  1. MIDH Operational Guidelines 2025, guidelines dated 31 December 2025 ↗

    National Horticulture Board, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare · 2025

Reading a source is not the same as applying its instructions to every farm. Confirm species, strain, crop stage, system, region and publication date. Old chemical recommendations are not current-use instructions.

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