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GJ Scheme for Mushroom Cultivation

Published as “Gujarat Directorate of Horticulture, Scheme for Mushroom Cultivation (archive-recovered)”, Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Gujarat.

GJ Scheme for Mushroom Cultivation is Gujarat’s own scheme, administered by Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Gujarat. It is verified against a primary document, with 3 rules for mushroom cultivation below.

The most this pays for one item

₹8.00 lakh

The mushroom growing/production unit itself.

Printed in the document as “Production unit”.

Private applicant, general area, 40%. That percentage is taken of ₹20.00 lakh, the cost this scheme assumes the item takes to build (it calls that a cost norm), not of whatever your own quotation says.

Gujarat Directorate of Horticulture, "Mushroom and Beekeeping" scheme page (Wayback-recovered from the pre-iKhedut doh.gujarat.gov.in site)Printed 19 December 2018Show evidence

Masaruma and Beekeeping (Gujarat Directorate of Horticulture, "Mushroom and Beekeeping" scheme page (Wayback-recovered from the pre-iKhedut doh.gujarat.gov.in site))

Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Gujarat

Printed 19 December 2018

Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at…Read the full clause
Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at https://web.archive.org/web/20191117093008/https://www.doh.gujarat.gov.in/masaruma-beekeeping.htm (capture timestamp 2019-11-17); the live doh.gujarat.gov.in site no longer serves this page (superseded by the iKhedut portal, whose own scheme data is AES-encrypted client-side and exposes no static URL, see the file-level note).

Table "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION", rows 1-3

Read on 13 September 2026 by chirag.

The biggest of the 3 items this document prices, not the total of them. Whether you can claim more than one, and alongside which other scheme, is answered further down.

What it pays for

Everything this document will put money towards on a mushroom project, in the order it lists them. Each figure names the document behind it; open one to read the clause itself.

Production unit

The mushroom growing/production unit itself.

The scheme assumes this item costs ₹20.00 lakh to build, and pays a share of that, not of your own quotation. It calls that figure a cost norm.

Gujarat Directorate of Horticulture, "Mushroom and Beekeeping" scheme page (Wayback-recovered from the pre-iKhedut doh.gujarat.gov.in site)Printed 19 December 2018Show evidence

Masaruma and Beekeeping (Gujarat Directorate of Horticulture, "Mushroom and Beekeeping" scheme page (Wayback-recovered from the pre-iKhedut doh.gujarat.gov.in site))

Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Gujarat

Printed 19 December 2018

Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at…Read the full clause
Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at https://web.archive.org/web/20191117093008/https://www.doh.gujarat.gov.in/masaruma-beekeeping.htm (capture timestamp 2019-11-17); the live doh.gujarat.gov.in site no longer serves this page (superseded by the iKhedut portal, whose own scheme data is AES-encrypted client-side and exposes no static URL, see the file-level note).

Table "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION", rows 1-3

Read on 13 September 2026 by chirag.

By applicant class and by area

Private applicant, general area, 40%.₹8.00 lakh
Public sector, general area, 100%.₹20.00 lakh
Table row, verbatim: "Production unit | Unit cost: Rs. 20.00 lakh/ unit. | 100% to public sector / 40% to private sector / One time subsidy/ beneficiary area limited to 2 ha. / Project based / Credit linked back ended subsidy." The "area limited to 2 ha" and "Project based" qualifiers have no field in this schema and are recorded here rather than dropped.Read the rest of this note

Table row, verbatim: "Production unit | Unit cost: Rs. 20.00 lakh/ unit. | 100% to public sector / 40% to private sector / One time subsidy/ beneficiary area limited to 2 ha. / Project based / Credit linked back ended subsidy." The "area limited to 2 ha" and "Project based" qualifiers have no field in this schema and are recorded here rather than dropped. On the gap against the current central norm: this is not a lower rate the state set for itself, it is the central norm the current one replaced. The Ministry of Agriculture's own earlier MIDH Operational Guidelines, dated February 2014 on its title page, prices exactly these three components at exactly these figures at Annexure-V, item "III. Mushrooms", and Government of India Annual Action Plans for states well outside this set (Punjab 2021-22 among them) reproduce them under the heading "Maximum permissible cost". Two things that does NOT mean. This atlas holds the two central guidelines and not the revisions between them, so it cannot say when the norm was raised; and a page written while that was the central norm was correct when it was written, so nothing here says this department erred. See "The Rs 20 lakh figure is the old central one" under How it works, which shows the earlier guideline in full.

Spawn making unit

The spawn laboratory.

The scheme assumes this item costs ₹15.00 lakh to build, and pays a share of that, not of your own quotation. It calls that figure a cost norm.

Same evidence as the rule abovePrinted 19 December 2018Show evidence

Same evidence as the rule above

Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Gujarat

Printed 19 December 2018

Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at…Read the full clause
Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at https://web.archive.org/web/20191117093008/https://www.doh.gujarat.gov.in/masaruma-beekeeping.htm (capture timestamp 2019-11-17); the live doh.gujarat.gov.in site no longer serves this page (superseded by the iKhedut portal, whose own scheme data is AES-encrypted client-side and exposes no static URL, see the file-level note).

Table "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION", rows 1-3

Read on 13 September 2026 by chirag.

By applicant class and by area

Private applicant, general area, 40%.₹6.00 lakh
Public sector, general area, 100%.₹15.00 lakh
Table row, verbatim: "Spawn making unit | Unit cost: Rs. 15.00 lakh/ unit. | 100% to public sector / 40% to private sector / One time subsidy/ beneficiary area limited to 2 ha. / Project based / Credit linked back ended subsidy." On the gap against the current central norm: this is not a lower rate the state set for itself, it is the central norm the current one replaced.Read the rest of this note

Table row, verbatim: "Spawn making unit | Unit cost: Rs. 15.00 lakh/ unit. | 100% to public sector / 40% to private sector / One time subsidy/ beneficiary area limited to 2 ha. / Project based / Credit linked back ended subsidy." On the gap against the current central norm: this is not a lower rate the state set for itself, it is the central norm the current one replaced. The Ministry of Agriculture's own earlier MIDH Operational Guidelines, dated February 2014 on its title page, prices exactly these three components at exactly these figures at Annexure-V, item "III. Mushrooms", and Government of India Annual Action Plans for states well outside this set (Punjab 2021-22 among them) reproduce them under the heading "Maximum permissible cost". Two things that does NOT mean. This atlas holds the two central guidelines and not the revisions between them, so it cannot say when the norm was raised; and a page written while that was the central norm was correct when it was written, so nothing here says this department erred. See "The Rs 20 lakh figure is the old central one" under How it works, which shows the earlier guideline in full.

Compost making unit

The compost yard and pasteurisation.

The scheme assumes this item costs ₹20.00 lakh to build, and pays a share of that, not of your own quotation. It calls that figure a cost norm.

Same evidence as the rule abovePrinted 19 December 2018Show evidence

Same evidence as the rule above

Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Gujarat

Printed 19 December 2018

Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at…Read the full clause
Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at https://web.archive.org/web/20191117093008/https://www.doh.gujarat.gov.in/masaruma-beekeeping.htm (capture timestamp 2019-11-17); the live doh.gujarat.gov.in site no longer serves this page (superseded by the iKhedut portal, whose own scheme data is AES-encrypted client-side and exposes no static URL, see the file-level note).

Table "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION", rows 1-3

Read on 13 September 2026 by chirag.

By applicant class and by area

Private applicant, general area, 40%.₹8.00 lakh
Public sector, general area, 100%.₹20.00 lakh
Table row, verbatim: "Compost making unit | Unit cost: Rs. 20.00 lakh/ unit. | 100% to public sector / 40% to private sector / One time subsidy/ beneficiary area limited to 2 ha. / Project based / Credit linked back ended subsidy." On the gap against the current central norm: this is not a lower rate the state set for itself, it is the central norm the current one replaced.Read the rest of this note

Table row, verbatim: "Compost making unit | Unit cost: Rs. 20.00 lakh/ unit. | 100% to public sector / 40% to private sector / One time subsidy/ beneficiary area limited to 2 ha. / Project based / Credit linked back ended subsidy." On the gap against the current central norm: this is not a lower rate the state set for itself, it is the central norm the current one replaced. The Ministry of Agriculture's own earlier MIDH Operational Guidelines, dated February 2014 on its title page, prices exactly these three components at exactly these figures at Annexure-V, item "III. Mushrooms", and Government of India Annual Action Plans for states well outside this set (Punjab 2021-22 among them) reproduce them under the heading "Maximum permissible cost". Two things that does NOT mean. This atlas holds the two central guidelines and not the revisions between them, so it cannot say when the norm was raised; and a page written while that was the central norm was correct when it was written, so nothing here says this department erred. See "The Rs 20 lakh figure is the old central one" under How it works, which shows the earlier guideline in full.

Who can claim it

This scheme prices a rate for general applicants and public sector units.

The conditions

Does this need a bank loan? (credit linked)
Yes. The subsidy rides on a bank loan: a bank sanctions the loan and the subsidy is adjusted against it.
When does the money arrive? (back ended)
After you build, and after an inspection. The subsidy is held in a reserve account and released once the project has been inspected and found complete, not paid up front.
Must it be approved before you start work? (sanction before commencement)
We searched this document for a clause requiring sanction before you start work and did not find one. That is not the same as there being no such rule: it may sit in a document we have not read. Confirm with your sanctioning department and your bank before committing spend. Read why we will not resolve this either way.

Claiming this alongside another scheme

Checked against every other scheme this atlas holds. For most pairs no document says anything either way, and this page says so rather than guessing.

Read against 43 other schemes: 43 unconfirmed.

Unconfirmed

For most pairs of schemes, this reading found nothing in either document that says how the two combine.

Neither guideline addresses this combination. Confirm with the department before you rely on it.

MIDH

This page's own BEE KEEPING table, immediately above the mushroom table, annotates every row "As per MIDH guidelines", the department plainly had a convention for flagging a centrally-sourced row…Read the rest of the reasoning

This page's own BEE KEEPING table, immediately above the mushroom table, annotates every row "As per MIDH guidelines", the department plainly had a convention for flagging a centrally-sourced row when it meant to. The MUSHROOM CULTIVATION table's three rows carry no such annotation (their Remarks column holds only the internal scheme code "Hrt-2,3,4,9,13,14"). Because the document itself draws this distinction, this record does not infer a MIDH citation the page withholds, even though the printed cost norms are now confirmed to be the central mission's own, of the generation the current one replaced, the Ministry's own MIDH Operational Guidelines dated February 2014. That confirmation deliberately does NOT move this verdict. Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Tripura are recorded 'excluded' because each of their documents names the central mission as the instrument it is publishing; this page does the opposite, on the same page, in the same Remarks column, for the table immediately above. A figure's provenance is not a document's own citation, and this record will not supply one the department withheld. Per this project's standing rule (identical-and-cited norms => excluded; norms alone, with the document silent on the relationship => unconfirmed), this is the silent case: not stackable, not excluded.

The document

Masaruma and Beekeeping (Gujarat Directorate of Horticulture, "Mushroom and Beekeeping" scheme page (Wayback-recovered from the pre-iKhedut doh.gujarat.gov.in site))

Directorate of Horticulture, Government of Gujarat

Printed 19 December 2018

Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at…Read the full clause
Section "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION" (below the page's "BEE KEEPING" table), rows 1-3: Production unit, Spawn making unit, Compost making unit. Recovered from the Wayback Machine capture at https://web.archive.org/web/20191117093008/https://www.doh.gujarat.gov.in/masaruma-beekeeping.htm (capture timestamp 2019-11-17); the live doh.gujarat.gov.in site no longer serves this page (superseded by the iKhedut portal, whose own scheme data is AES-encrypted client-side and exposes no static URL, see the file-level note).

Table "SCHEME FOR MUSHROOM CULTIVATION", rows 1-3

Read on 13 September 2026 by chirag.

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