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CEFPPC Scheme:- Creation / Expansion of Food Processing & Preservation Capacities

Objectives:

The main objective of the CEFPPC Scheme is creation of processing and preservation capacities and modernization /expansion of existing food processing units which will help in increasing the level of processing, value addition and thereby lead to reduction of wastage and enhancement of farmers’ income.

Eligible sectors:

Food processing sectors eligible under the Scheme includes –

(i). Fruits & vegetables processing,

(ii). Milk Processing

(iii). Meat/poultry/fish processing,

(iv). Ready to Eat / Ready to Cook Food Products/ Breakfast cereals/ Snacks / bakery and other food products including nutritional health foods.

(v). Grains/pulses, oil seed milling and processing based on modern technology.

(vi). Modern Rice milling.

(vii). Other agri-horti products including spices, coconut, soybean, mushroom processing, honey processing, etc.

(viii). Fruits/ Honey based wines.

(ix). Natural Food flavors, food additives/ food extracts & colours, oleoresins, guar gum, cocoa products etc.

(x). Manufacturing jaggery from sugarcane and value added products from jaggery (as raw material) except sugar mills.

(xi). Any other sector that makes food products fit for human consumption.

(xii). Animal feed manufacturing unit to be set up in Mega Food Parks and Agro Processing Clusters approved by the Ministry from time to time.

Pattern of assistance CEFPPC Scheme:

The scheme envisages financial assistance to food processing units in the form of grant-in-aid as under:

(i). 35% of the eligible project cost subject to a maximum of Rs. 5.00 crore in General Areas;

(ii). 50% of the eligible project cost subject to a maximum of Rs. 5.00 crore in North Eastern States (including Sikkim) and Difficult areas i.e. Himalayan States/UTs (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir), State Notified ITDP areas and Islands (Union Territories of Andaman& Nicobar and Lakshadweep).

Eligibility Criteria CEFPPC Scheme :

(i). The promoter’s capital/ equity investment on the project should not be less than 20% of the total project cost (excluding land cost) in case of general areas and 10% of the total project cost (excluding land cost) in case of NER, difficult areas, SC, ST and islands

(ii). Availing term loan from the bank/ Financial Institution minimum 20% of the total project cost (except for proposals submitted by Central/State Government)

Support to individual Micro Enterprises

Eligibility

• Individual
• Proprietorship firms
• Partnership firms
• FPO (Farmer Producer Organization)
• NGO(Non-Government Organization)
• SHG (Self Help Group)
• Co-op (Cooperative)
• Pvt Ltd. Companies.

Eligible Enterprise

• Existing Enterprise – Both ODOP & Non-ODOP.
• New Enterprise – Both ODOP & Non-ODOP.

Financial Support / Assistance

For all- Individual/Proprietorship / Partnership /FPO/NGO/SHG/ Co-op / Pvt Ltd. Companies- credit linked capital subsidy @35% of eligible project cost max Rs.10.00 Lac  for eligible projects. Eligible project cost comprises cost of plant & machinery and technical civil work but excludes any cost of land/rental or lease work shed .

Technical Civil Work should not be more than 30% of the eligible project cost.

Support to Group Category for Setting up of Common Infrastructure

• Eligible organization
• FPOs/FPCs
• Co-op (Cooperatives)
• SHGs (Self Help Groups) /and its federation
• Govt. agencies
• Product
• Proposal for ODOP or Non-ODOP are eligible for assistance. However ODOP proposals would be preferred.

Support / Assistance

Credit linked capital subsidy @35% of eligible project cost with max ceiling of Rs.3.00 crore.

Project components & Cost Breakup 

• Comprises Cost of Plant & Machinery and Technical civil work.
• Technical civil work should not be more than 30% of Eligible project cost.
• Exclude cost of land /rental or lease work shed.
• Total eligible project cost should not exceed Rs. 10 Crore. Credit linked capital subsidy @35% with max ceiling of Rs.3.00 crore.

Financial Assistance to DRP for Individual application.

1.The payment of Rs. 20,000/- to the DRPs would be in 2 installments i.e. 50% of the payment would be made after sanction of bank loan.

2. And remaining 50% after the completion of the unit and also obtaining FSSAI Certificate, Udyam Certificate and GST registration (wherever required).

3. Second installment of payment to DRP would not be linked with completion of training of beneficiaries.

The Operation Green Subsidy for storage facility And Transport . The MoFPI announced the revised procedure to claim for Transportation and Storage Facilities

Objective

The objective of the operation green subsidy for storage facility Scheme is to protect the growers of Eligible Crops from making distress sale and to reduce post-harvest losses. –

Duration of Scheme

From the date of notification to 31.03.2026 or till further orders.

Eligible Crops

Following crops (other crops may be added in future on the basis of recommendation of expert bodies or Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India or a State Government) will be eligible under the Scheme:

Fruits: Mango, Banana, Guava, Kiwi, Litchi, Papaya, Mousambi, Orange, Kinnow, Lime, Lemon, Pineapple, Pomegranate, Jackfruit, Apple, Almond, Aonla, Passion Fruit, Pear, Sweet Potato, Chikoo and Tender & De-husked Coconut Vegetables: French Beans, Bitter Gourd, Brinjal, Capsicum, Carrot, Cauliflower, Chillies (Green), Okra, Cucumber, Peas, Garlic, Onion, Potato, Tomato, Large Cardamom, Pumpkin, Ginger, Cabbage, Squash and Turmeric

Pattern of Assistance

The Ministry will provide subsidy @50 % of the cost of the following two components, subject to the cost norms notified by the Ministry: (i) Transportation of Eligible Crops from Eligible Production Cluster; and/or (ii) Hiring of appropriate storage facilities for Eligible Crops (for maximum period of 3 months);

Minimum quantity to be procured and transported or stored, as the case may be, per Eligible Entity (may consist of one or more Eligible Crops) for being eligible for grant of subsidy will be as under:

• 9 MT for individual farmers and group of farmers;
• 100 MT for FPO, FPC and Co-operative Society;
• 500 MT for Food Processors, Exporters, Licensed Commission Agents;
• 1,000 MT for Retailers, State Marketing/ Co-operative Federation;

Eligibility Criterion for Transportation:

 Minimum distance criteria for transportation by road or by rail from Eligible Production Clusters is as under:

• 100 km for individual farmers, Group of farmers, FPO, FPC, Co-operative Societies, Food Processors, Licensed Commission Agents and Exporters;
•  250 km for State Marketing/ Co-operative Federation, Retailers.

Eligible Airports:

 All airports in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. Also, Bagdogra airport shall be an Eligible Airport until Pakyong airport or any other airport in Sikkim becomes air cargo operational, provided that the Eligible Entity is from the State of Sikkim.-

Pattern of Assistance for transportation by air

The Ministry will provide subsidy @50 % of the actual cost of the following components

Operation Green Subsidy for storage facility

NHB Horticulture Scheme

The Board will also take up commercial horticulture development projects under protected cover on project mode including components viz planting material, plantation, irrigation, fertigation, mechanization, etc for projects having area over 2500 sq meter. In case of NE Region, projects having area over 1000 sq meter are eligible. Activities like construction of green houses, shade net house, plastic mulching, and plastic tunnel, anti bird /hail nets etc- Subsidy For Shad Net

Crops eligible:

1. Flowers: Anthurium, Orchids, Rose, Lilium, Chrysanthemum, Carnation and Gerbera. b. Vegetables: High value vegetables: Capsicum, Cucumber, Tomato

Pattern of Assistance:

Credit linked back-ended subsidy @ 50% of the total project cost limited to Rs 56.00 lakh per project as per admissible cost norms for green houses, shade net house, plastic tunnel, anti bird /hail nets & cost of planting material etc.

Development of Commercial Horticulture

Item	Cost Norms*	Pattern of Assistance
Shade Net House
Tubular structure	Rs. 710/Sqm and Rs. 816/Sqm for hilly states	50% of cost for above 2500 Sqm
Wooden structure	Rs. 492/Sqm and Rs. 566/Sqm for hilly states	50% of cost for above 2500 Sqm
Bamboo structure	Rs.360/Sqm and Rs.414/Sqm for hilly states	50% of cost for above 2500 Sqm

MISSION FOR INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT OF HORTICULTURE

Protection Cultivation

Activities like construction of green houses, shade net house, plastic mulching, and plastic tunnels, anti bird/ hail nets would be promoted under the Mission . NHB will implement projects having area above 2500 sq. m . Provision has been made for selecting a variety of construction material for green houses and shade net houses. Preference will be given to using locally available material to minimize cost of construction of such structures. However, for availing/subsidy assistance, all material/technologies should conform to BIS standards

Protected cultivation

Shade Net House
Tubular structure	Rs. 710/Sqm and Rs. 816/Sqm for hilly areas	50% of cost limited to 4000 sq.m. per beneficiary.
Wooden structure	Rs. 710/Sqm and Rs. 816/Sqm for hilly areas	50% of cost limited to 20 units per beneficiary (each unit not to exceed 200 sq.m)
Bamboo structure	Rs.360/Sqm and Rs.414/Sqm for hilly areas	50% of cost limited to 20 units per beneficiary (each unit not to exceed 200 sq.m)

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The Government Subsidy For Milk Chilling Infrastructure envisages providing loan assistance to State Dairy Federations, District Milk Unions, Milk Producers Companies, Multi State Cooperatives and NDDB subsidiaries across the country who are termed as Eligible End Borrowers (EEBs). The funding period (2017-18 to 2019-20) of the scheme to be revised to 2018-19 to 2022-23 and the repayment period to be extended upto 2030-31 with spill over to first quarter of the FY 2031-32.

Objectives of the DIDF scheme:

• To modernize the milk processing plants and machinery and to create additional infrastructure for processing more milk.

Implementing Agency and End Borrowers Government Subsidy For Milk Chilling Infrastructure :

Implemented by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC)

End Borrowers: Milk Unions, State Dairy Federations, Multi-state Milk Cooperatives, Milk Producer Companies and NDDB subsidiaries.

Components of DIDF:

Milk processing, Chilling and Value added Products plants

Milk Chilling infrastructure

Electronic milk testing kit

New Components

• Cattle feed/ feed supplement plants
• Milk transportation system (Refer van/insulated tankers etc)
• Marketing infrastructure (including e-market system, bulk vending system, Parlour, deep freezer, cold storage etc.
• Commodity and Cattle feed go-downs
• ICT infrastructure (e.g. block chain technology, servers, IT solutions, Near Real Time devices etc)
• R&D (lab & equipment, new technology, innovations, product development etc)
• Renewable energy infrastructure/ plants, trigen/ energy efficiency infrastructure
• Pet bottle/packaging material manufacturing units for dairy purposes
• Training centre (complete with civil and other necessary infrastructure)

Funding:

Interest subvention [DAHD to NABARD]: 2.5% (with effect from 11.09.2020), Any increase in cost of funds, shall be borne by the Eligible End Borrowers (EEB).

NDDB has also been allowed to give loans to End Borrowers from its own resources

Background Scheme for AYUSH Super Specialty Hospitals:

The Champion Services Sector Scheme for Medical Value Travel has been framed by Govt. of India to enhance Medical Tourism in the country especially in the field of Traditional System of Medicine, since the documentation/ record and focus on traditional system of medicine has been marginal or minimal till now. The initiative would not only promote and propagate Ayurveda, Yoga & other Traditional systems of medicine in India but also expected to increase foot fall of International patients/tourists/visitors in the country which in turn is likely to generate revenue in terms of foreign exchange for the country. The proposed scheme also intends for creating more opportunities for capacity building and skill development in Ayurveda, Yoga & other Traditional systems of medicine sector creating more AYUSH job opportunities and also nationwide authentic data generation in Ayurveda, Yoga & other Traditional systems of medicine sector.

Objective of the Scheme Scheme for AYUSH Super Specialty Hospitals:

To encourage private investors to invest in AYUSH sector through Establishment of World Class, State of the Art Super Specialty Hospitals/ Day Care Centres of the systems recognized under Indian Medicine Central Council (IMCC) Act, 1970 or Homeopathic Central Council (HCC) Act, 1973 for promoting export of medical value travel services including services supplied to foreign consumers in India by providing interest subsidy.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Any Private Institution(s)/Hospital(s)/Investor(s)/Small and Medium Enterprises / organization (s) willing to Establish World Class, State of the Art, Super Speciality Hospitals/ Day Care Centres of the systems recognized under Indian Medicine Central Council (IMCC) Act, 1970 or Homoeopathic Central Council (HCC) Act, 1973.
• The applicant Institution(s)/Hospital(s)/Investor(s) organization (s) should be registered under Societies Registration Act/ Trust/ Companies Act.
• Preference would be given to ASU&H practitioners registered under IMCC Act, 1970 or HCC Act, 1973.
• The scheme is applicable for the construction of new hospitals only.
• Desirable: Experience in running healthcare facilities.

Implementation Zone:

The scheme will be implemented in Green Field Mode on Pan India basis.

 Funding Mechanism:

• Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), would be roped in for facilitation of easy loans through identified Public Sector Banks (PSBs) to the applicant organization (s)/investor (s)/SMEs for a period not exceeding five years for availing interest subsidy component from M/o AYUSH for the establishment of AYUSH Super Specialty Hospitals/ Day Care Centers as requested by the applicants.
• The quantum of financial support to be provided under this Scheme shall be in the form of Interest subsidy component in descending order i.e. 100% (1stYear), 70% (2ndYear), 50% (3rdYear), 40% (4thYear), and 20% (5thYear). Projects which are sanctioned and takes off in the 1st Year, 2nd year and 3rd year respectively of operation of the Scheme will avail Interest subsidy component as per details given below:
• 1st Year: 100% (1stYear), 70% (2ndYear), 50% (3rdYear), 40% (4thYear), and 20%
• (5thYear).
• 2nd year: 100% (1stYear), 70% (2ndYear), 50% (3rdYear), 40% (4thYear).
• 3rd year: 100% (1stYear), 70% (2ndYear), 50% (3rdYear).

• Admissibility of interest subsidy vs. investment made by the Investor as given below                                                                                                                                                                            (Rs. In Cr.)

SNO	Activity	Total No. of Hospitals/ Day care centre to be supported	Total estimated upper cap construction (including equipments and Machinery) cost as per scheme guidelines	Contribution to be made by the investor	Actual loan to be considered for interest subsidy	Maximum interest subsidy admissible as per scheme guidelines
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	50 bedded hospitals	20	Rs.50.00	Rs.16.66	Rs.33.33	Rs. 08.15
2	10 bedded hospitals	61	Rs.15.00	Rs.05.00	Rs.10.00	Rs. 02.45
3	Day Care Centres	74	Rs.06.00	Rs.02.00	Rs.04.00	Rs. 00.98

N.B. Investors are free to invest beyond the upper cap limit as mentioned in col. 3. However, Government will consider the payment of interest subsidy on actual loan to be considered as per col. 5, further subject to payment of interest subsidy as per actual loan raised by the investor, whichever is less. In any case, maximum interest subsidy admissible as per scheme guidelines shall not exceed the limit as mentioned in col. 7 of the table above. The maximum Rate of Interest admissible to get Interest subsidy shall be capped at 9% per annum or as per actual whichever is less.

• Interest subsidy will be provided by the Ministry of AYUSH directly to financial institution/ bank through SIDBI after confirmation by the bank to M/o AYUSH about the successful progress/completion of the project as per Construction Linked Plan CLP) /submission of requisite documents and payment of EMI by the applicant on pre-defined Terms of Reference (ToR).

Ministry of AYUSH would sign an Agreement/ Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SIDBI for proper execution of the scheme.

PLI application for KSMs and APIs

Department of Pharmaceuticals had issued guidelines for the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for Promotion of Domestic Manufacturing of critical Key Starting Materials (KSMs)/Drug Intermediates and Active Pharmaceuticals Ingredients (APIs) in the Country on 29th October 2020. Applications were invited under the Scheme which have already been appraised and selected.- PLI application for KSMs and APIs-PLI in food processing

The Department further invites applications from eligible applicants under the Scheme
for the left over slots/quantity for the following eligible products:-

Target Segment	Name of Eligible Product	Minimum Annual Production Capacity as per Scheme Guidelines (in MT)	Shortfall in Minimum Annual Production Capacity (in MT)	Maximum no. of applicants to be selected
Key Fermentation based KSMs/Drug Intermediates	Erythromycin Thiocynate (TIOC)	800	1,600 MT	2
	7 – ACA	1000	1,000 MT	1
Fermentation based niche KSMs/Drug Intermediates /APIs	Neomycin	80	160 MT	2
	Gentamycin	40	80 MT	2
	Vitamin B1	200	200 MT	1
	Clindamycin Bas	60	120 MT	2
	Streptomycin	50	100 MT	2
	Tetracycline	200	400 MT	2
Key Chemical Synthesis based KSMs/Drug Intermediates	Dicyandiamide (DCDA)	8000	32,000 MT	4
	2-MNI	800	3200 MT	4

The last date for filing of the application is 45 days from the issuance of the Notice.