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Mushroom subsidy calculator

Calculate an indicative scheme-specific assistance basis from eligible cost, norm, units, rate and ceiling.

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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 subsidy calculator

Start with a source-linked scheme component. Total project cost is never used automatically as eligible cost.

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

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Rule usedmin(actual eligible cost, normative cost x allowed units) x assistance rate

Guideline page Pages 28 and 49, Annexure V, III(a)

Indicative calculation

₹12,00,000

Eligible basis used
₹30,00,000
Rate used
40%
Funding before receipt
₹30,00,000
Net after receipt, if approved
₹18,00,000
  • This is an indicative calculation from the selected published rule. Approval, eligible bills and payment timing depend on the authority and lender.
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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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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Understand the topic

Start with the explanation.

Start with a source-linked scheme component. Total project cost is never used automatically as eligible cost.

Read the evidence

Sources & review.

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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