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Mushroom scheme finder

Shortlist schemes by applicant, activity, location and project stage with explicit reasons and unknowns.

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Freshly harvested white button mushrooms sorted into red plastic punnets inside a crate, Tamil Nadu, India (Tamil caption 'button mushroom').
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Mushroom scheme finder

A shortlist means potential fit for further verification, not eligibility or approval.

Editorial record: publishedPrimary sources: 3 linkedLatest attached source check: 2026-08-23

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Potential fitactive policyunknown intake

MIDH

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.

  • Applicant type appears in the controlled scheme record.
  • MIDH has a direct mushroom production component.
  • Application status: unknown.
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Not a direct fitactive policyunknown intake

AIF

Mushroom farming appears in the community farming asset list for specified group applicants. Post-harvest and eligible infrastructure can have a different applicant fit.

  • Applicant type is not established for this record.
  • Mushroom farming as a community asset is restricted to group categories in the guideline.
  • Application status: unknown.
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Not a direct fitunder-review policyunknown intake

PMFME

Potential fit for eligible micro food processing activities such as value-added mushroom products. Ordinary fresh mushroom cultivation alone is not treated as processing.

  • Applicant type appears in the controlled scheme record.
  • PMFME is modeled for food processing, not ordinary cultivation.
  • Application status: unknown.
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Conditional fitunder-review policynot-applicable intake

NABARD

Useful for DPR structure, area-development context and bankability questions. It is not evidence of a current NABARD mushroom subsidy.

  • Applicant type appears in the controlled scheme record.
  • Application status: not-applicable.
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Educational planning only. Source checks are not authority review. No approval, sanction, eligibility or assistance payment is guaranteed.

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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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current2026-08-23

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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current2026-08-23

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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Start with the explanation.

A shortlist means potential fit for further verification, not eligibility or approval.

Read the evidence

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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

  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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