Mushroom subsidy in Assam

Assam, verified 2026-09-13 against the Directorate of Horticulture & Food Processing's own complete "Schemes" index page, RECOVERED FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE (captured 2017-10-17, via the `id_` suffix for raw original bytes) because prior passes checked dirhorti.assam.gov.in's "documents/guidelines" repository (empty) and agri-horti.assam.gov.in's own HMNEH page (boilerplate, no rate) without ever locating this master index.

The department's own "Schemes" page lists exactly eleven named schemes plus one generic "State Plan Scheme" tag: Bee Keeping; Chief Minister Floriculture Mission; Coconut Development Scheme; Community Canning & Training on Fruit Preservation; District wise allotment for current year; Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan States (HMNEH); Integrated Horticulture Development; Micro Irrigation under PMKSY (Per Drop More Crop); Mission Organic Value Chain Development in Assam (MOVCDA); Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY); Rashtriya Krishi Vikash Yojana (RKVY). Mushroom is not one of these eleven. The "State Plan Scheme" tag itself was checked (fetched its own detail page, also archived alongside): it is not a hidden bucket of untitled sub-schemes, it is a filter tag that resolves to three of the already-named schemes (Integrated Horticulture Development, Community Canning & Training on Fruit Preservation, Chief Minister Floriculture Mission), no additional, unnamed scheme content sits behind it.

A domain-wide Wayback CDX search of dirhorti.assam.gov.in for "mushroom" (this pass) surfaced real departmental mushroom material that no prior pass had found, but it settles the question rather than reopening it. Two documents (archived alongside; the spawn-lab one below): - "Mushroom Spawn Production Laboratory, Khanapara", a technical facility manual: "Non availability of spawn is the major constraint in mushroom production in Assam. To make the spawn available, Govt. of Assam has established the mushroom spawn production laboratory at Khanapara under the Directorate of Horticulture and Food Processing, Assam." Followed by an equipment list and cultivation/spawn-production procedure. Read end to end: no subsidy percentage, no farmer-facing rate, no distribution price, pure facility infrastructure and technique, the same pattern this project has already established for Nagaland's Dimapur/Mokokchung/Wokha/Kohima mushroom units, a government-run production facility, not a beneficiary subsidy scheme. - "Mushroom cultivation" (17 pages), a cultivation-economics leaflet (mushroom biology, nutrition tables, global/national/state production statistics, a worked cost-of-production and profit example for paddy-straw mushroom). Read end to end and searched for "subsidy", "assistance", "scheme", "MIDH", "NHM": the only rupee figures anywhere are the farmer's own input costs and sale price in the worked profit example, no departmental assistance percentage or rate. Matches the prior pass's finding of this same document exactly, now confirmed by a full re-read rather than inferred. Together these confirm mushroom receives facility-level and extension/advisory attention from this department (a spawn lab, a cultivation leaflet) but was never elevated to "Scheme" status on the department's own itemised list the way Bee Keeping or Coconut Development were.

No rules recorded: neither the department's complete scheme index nor its dedicated mushroom facility/leaflet material prices a mushroom-specific farmer subsidy. Central MIDH's own mushroom rules already apply to an Assam farmer regardless of this record.