Farmers invited to apply for Horticulture subsidies

Horticulture department officers have invited applications from young and interested farmers for subsidies on various horticultural crops under the National Horticulture Mission scheme for the year 2026-27.

Interested farmers may apply by visiting the office of the Senior Assistant Director of Horticulture (Zilla Panchayat), Savadatti, before September 28. These include subsidies for hydroponics, tissue-culture banana, papaya, aromatic plant saplings, bulbous flowers, low-cost onion storage units, and plastic mulching.

Also available are facilities under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana for solar pump sets, farm-gate units, horticultural produce collection centres, and low-cost fruit ripening units, and the oil palm area expansion programme under the Centrally sponsored National Edible Oil Mission-Oil Palm scheme, said a release.