3.

Applicants’ Eligibility/ Eligible Organizations: -

Unless otherwise specified, organizations/promoters, such as Association of Growers,
Individuals, group of farmer growers/consumers, Farmers Producer Organizations (FPOs,)
Partnership/Proprietary Firms, Self Help groups (SHGs), NGOs, Companies, Corporations,
Cooperatives, Co-operative Marketing Federations, Agricultural Produce Marketing
Committees, Marketing Boards/Committees, Municipal Corporations/ Committees, Agro-
Industries Corporations, SAU’s and other concerned R&D organizations are eligible to get
assistance under all the NHB schemes.

Unit and limits of financial assistance:

Family or a legal entity eligible to avail assistance under NHB schemes as the case may be shall
be considered as an unit in considering eligibility in making application and in availing subsidy
in case of Schemes No.1 and 2. The family includes husband, wife and dependent minor
children.

The benefit received / to be received either as individual member of the family, as a Group or
jointly by husband and wife and/ dependent/ minor children of same family, and by any of these
individual members of the family acting as a partner of a partnership firm, proprietor, as CEO or
MD or director of a company, any form of legal entity etc shall be considered as benefit received
by the said family and legal entity.

The eligibility is seen component wise as per NHB Schemes:

Scheme
1 Development of
Commercial Horticulture
through Production and
Post-Harvest Management
of Horticultural crops
2 Capital Investment subsidy
scheme for construction /
expansion/modernization
of Cold storage and
storages for Horticulture
Products
Component
Commercial Horticulture Development in Open field
conditions
Commercial Horticulture development in Protected cover
Integrated Post Harvest Management
Any one of the component:
For capacity between 5001-10000 MT.
CS Type-1 / CS Type-2 / CS Type2 with add on
Technology for CA /
Technology induction and Modernization

The maximum subsidy that an applicant can avail is the maximum admissible subsidy prescribed
under each component of the NHB scheme guidelines as valid on the date of application under
which he/she applied but not more.