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Last Updated: 16 Oct 2025

Mission For Integrated Development Of Horticulture (MIDH)

The MIDH is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for the holistic development of horticulture across India, providing financial and technical support to enhance production, post-harvest management, processing, marketing, and farmer capacity-building.

Quick facts

  • Type:  Centrally Sponsored Scheme
  • Purpose: Holistic development of horticulture in the country
  • Assistance: Financial & technical assistance is provided to States/UTs for key interventions
  • Coverage: All the States/UTs are covered 

Objectives: 

  • Adopt an end-to-end holistic approach covering production, post-harvest management, processing and marketing to assure appropriate returns to growers/producers.
  • Promote R&D technologies for production, post-harvest management and processing. 
  • Enhance acreage, coverage, and productivity through diversification (from traditional crops to plantations, orchards, vineyards, etc.) and extension of appropriate technology to farmers.
  • Adopt a coordinated approach and promote partnership, convergence and synergy.
  • Promote capacity-building and Human Resource Development at all levels.

Enhance horticulture production and productivity, encourage aggregation of farmers and support their skill development. 

Salient features

  • Background:  Scheme is being implemented from 2014-15. 
  • Crops covered: Fruits, vegetables, root & tuber crops, mushrooms, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashew, cocoa and bamboo.
  • Fund sharing
    • Subsidy is shared between the Central Government and State Governments in the ratio of 60:40 in all the states other than North Eastern and Himalayan states, where the pattern of assistance is shared in the ratio of 90:10.
    • In case of NHB, CDB, CIH, and the National Level Agencies (NLA), the Centre contributes 100%.
  • Sub-schemes
    • National Horticulture Mission (NHM): To promote holistic growth of horticulture sector through an area based regionally differentiated strategies.
    • Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan States (HMNEH): It is a technology mission which focuses on production of quality planting material, organic farming, efficient water management, etc.
    • National Horticulture Board (NHB): NHB is implementing various schemes under MIDH in all States and UTs.
    • Coconut Development Board (CDB): CDB is implementing various schemes under MIDH in all Coconut growing states in the country.
    • Central Institute for Horticulture (CIH), Nagaland: Established for providing technical support through capacity building and training of farmers and Field functionaries in the North Eastern Region.
  • Monitoring: Executive Committee headed by Secretary (DAC&FW) monitors the progress of Mission.

Other initiatives under MIDH

  • CHAMAN (Coordinated Horticulture Assessment using Management using geoiNformatics)
    • Area assessment and production forecasting of 7 major horticultural crops in selected districts of major states (12 states, 185 Districts).
    • Key crops include: Mango, Banana, Citrus, Potato, Onion, Chilli & Tomato
    • Use of GIS (Geographical Information System) and remote sensing data for generating action plans.
Hub-and-spoke diagram illustrating nine major interventions financed under MIDH (Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture): quality planting material, water resources management, area expansion, horticulture mechanization, rejuvenation for pollination, bee-keeping, protected cultivation, post-harvest management infrastructure, and organic farming certification.
  • HORTNET
    • HORTNET project is a web enabled work flow-based system for providing financial assistance under MIDH.
    • It is a unique intervention to accomplish e-Governance in NHM wherein total transparency has been envisaged in all the processes of workflow i.e., online application filing, authentication, processing and online payment to the beneficiary's bank account through DBT.
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