PURPOSE:
• Development of marketing infrastructure such as common facilities in the market yards like platforms for auction, loading unloading, drying, cleaning etc.
• The ancillary/ supporting infrastructure like parking sheds, internal roads, garbage disposal, boundary walls etc. are also permissible components. However, stand-alone ancillary/ supporting infrastructure projects will not be assisted.
• Functional infrastructure for collection/ assembling, drying, cleaning, grading, quality certification, waxing, value addition facilities (without changing the product form) etc.
• Infrastructure for direct marketing of agricultural commodities from producers to consumers/ processing units/ bulk buyers, etc.
• Infrastructure for E-trading, market intelligence and market related extension.
• Mobile infrastructure for post-harvest operations viz. grading, packing, quality testing etc. including reefer vans, or any other refrigerated vans. However, transport vehicles such as trucks, van etc. will not be permissible for assistance.
• Storage infrastructure like godowns including stand- alone silos for storage of food grains with necessary ancillary facilities like loading, unloading, bagging facility etc., excluding railway siding.
ELIGIBILITY:
• Individuals, group of farmers/ growers, Registered Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)
• Partnership/ Proprietary firms, Companies, Corporations
• NGOs, Self Help Groups (SHGs)
• Cooperatives, Cooperative Marketing Federations;
• Autonomous Bodies of the Government, Local Bodies (excluding Municipal Corporations for storage infrastructure projects), Panchayats;
• State agencies including State Government Departments and autonomous organization / State owned corporations such as Agricultural Produce Market Committees & marketing Boards, State Warehousing Corporations, State Civil Supplies Corporations etc.
EXTENT OF LOAN: Need based
SUBSIDY: The subsidy available under the scheme is as under:
For Storage Infrastructure Projects:
• 33.33% of the capital cost of the project. In case of projects located in North – Eastern States, Sikkim, UTs of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands and hilly areas, maximum ceiling on subsidy will be Rs. 133.20 Lakhs.
• In case of Registered FPOs, Panchayats, Women, SC/ST entrepreneurs or their Self Help Groups / Co-operatives and SC/ST entrepreneurs & their Self Help Groups/ Co-operatives (in areas other than (a) above), 33.33% of capital cost of project subject to maximum ceiling of Rs.100 lakhs.
• 25% of the capital cost of the project to all other categories of beneficiaries, subject to a maximum ceiling on subsidy of Rs. 75 lakhs.
For Infrastructure Projects Other than Storage Infrastructure:
• 33.33% of the capital cost of the project. In case of projects located in North – Eastern States, Sikkim, UTs of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep Islands and hilly areas, maximum ceiling on subsidy will be Rs. 30 lakhs.
• In case of Registered FPOs, Panchayati Raj Institutions, Women farmers/ Entrepreneurs, SC/ST entrepreneurs and their co-operatives, 33.33% of capital cost of project subject to maximum ceiling of Rs. 30 lakhs.
• 25% of the capital cost of the project to all other categories of beneficiaries, subject to a maximum ceiling on subsidy of Rs. 25 lakhs.
REPAYMENT: The repayment schedule will be drawn on the loan amount in such a way that the total subsidy amount is adjusted after the full loan component with interest is liquidated but not before five years from the date of disbursement of first installment of loan.