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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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MIDHMIDH.2025.2025-12-31

Operational Guidelines 2025, dated 31 December 2025

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AIFAIF.2024-09

Revised Scheme Guidelines, September 2024

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PMFMEPMFME.MOD.2022-05-18

Modification office memorandum dated 18 May 2022

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NABARDNABARD.HP.MODEL.2016

Historical Himachal Pradesh model bankable project

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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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Agriculture Infrastructure Fund Revised Scheme Guidelines, September 2024

Mushroom farming is listed as a community farming asset for specified group applicants. Loan sanction, rate, security and eligibility remain lender and scheme decisions.

Authority
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Reference
Guideline pages 5 to 12
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PMFME modification for individual and group components

This component concerns micro food processing, not ordinary cultivation. The portal does not by itself establish a currently open state application window.

Authority
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Reference
Office Memorandum, paragraph 1
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  1. MIDH Operational Guidelines 2025, guidelines dated 31 December 2025 ↗

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

  2. Agriculture Infrastructure Fund Revised Scheme Guidelines, September 2024 ↗

    Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare · 2024

  3. PMFME modification for individual and group components ↗

    Ministry of Food Processing Industries · 2022

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