Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme implemented from 2014-15 for holistic development of horticulture in the country, covering fruits, vegetables, root and tuber crops, mushrooms, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashewand  cocoa. All States/UTs are covered under MIDH.

Under MIDH, financial & technical assistance is provided to States/UTs for following major interventions/activities:

1. Setting up of nurseries, tissue culture units for production of quality seed and planting material.
2. Area expansion i.e. Establishment of new orchards and gardens for fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
3. Rejuvenation of unproductive, old, and senile orchards.
4. Protected cultivation, i.e. poly-house, green-house, etc, to improve the productivity & grow off season high value vegetables and flowers.
5. Organic farming and certification.
6. Creation of water resources structures and watershed management.
7. Bee-keeping for pollination.
8. Horticulture Mechanization.
9. Creation of Post Harvest Management and Marketing infrastructure.
10. Training of farmers.

 

Mission is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme being implemented through State Governments, where the 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.  Hence, the active support of State Governments is paramount for the success of Mission. Under the Mission, funds are released to the State Horticulture Missions (SHMs) through State Finance Department/ Treasury. Many SHMs have told about considerable delay in receipt of funds released under the Scheme from the State Finance Department/ State Treasury.

State-wise details of number of farmers trained under MIDH since inception i.e. from 2014-15 to 2021-22 is as under:

 

S. No.	State	Number of farmers trained
1	Andaman & Nicobar	151
2	Andhra Pradesh	119913
3	Bihar	16510
4	Chhattisgarh	22853
5	Goa	1052
6	Gujarat	42438
7	Haryana	15780
8	Jharkhand	39430
9	Karnataka	38270
10	Kerala	4829
11	Madhya Pradesh	57978
12	Maharashtra	71554
13	Odisha	69549
14	Puducherry	3776
15	Punjab	6743
16	Rajasthan	7060
17	Tamilnadu	31548
18	Telangana	35046
19	Uttar Pradesh	27736
20	West Bengal	835
21	Arunachal Pradesh	11997
22	Assam	12792
23	Himachal Pradesh	3316
24	Jammu and Kashmir	17217
25	Ladakh	1924
26	Manipur	3566
27	Meghalaya	36517
28	Mizoram	38825
29	Nagaland	4643
30	Sikkim	57714
31	Tripura	8651
32	Uttarakhand	10491
	Total	820704

Source: as reported by States

 

This information was given by the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.

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