Comprehensive Programme for Vegetables and Fruits

Announced in Budget 2025-26, this programme addresses the particular problem of perishables: vegetables and fruits cannot be stored like grain, so a glut has to be sold at whatever price is on offer that week, and a shortage sends retail prices up without the farmer benefiting.

It aims to improve production, supply, processing and remunerative prices, implemented with the states.

How it is meant to work

Through institutional mechanisms involving Farmer Producer Organisations and cooperatives — aggregation and processing, rather than individual farmers selling into a daily market.

The official compilation confirms these objectives and the FPO and cooperative route but does not publish components or amounts. Confirm with your state horticulture department.

• Support for production, supply chains, processing and achieving remunerative prices for vegetables and fruits.
• Delivered through FPOs and cooperatives, which means aggregation, shared processing and collective bargaining rather than individual sale.
• For specific horticulture investments — poly-houses, pack houses, orchards — also look at MIDH, which has established components and rates.

• Farmers growing vegetables and fruits, mainly through FPOs and cooperatives.
• Component details and eligibility come from the programme guidelines and the state's plan.

• The programme works through institutional mechanisms, so an individual farmer outside an FPO or cooperative may have limited access to its components.
• Detailed components and amounts were not published in the sources available here. Do not commit to a processing investment on the basis of a summary — get the sanction terms in writing.

How to apply

1. Ask your state horticulture department or district horticulture officer what is being implemented under this programme in your state.
2. If you are not in an FPO or cooperative, ask how to join or form one, since that is the delivery route.
3. For an immediate, well-defined horticulture investment, ask about MIDH in the same visit — its components and rates are established, which makes it the more predictable option today.

• Land record
• FPO or cooperative registration documents
• Project proposal for processing or supply chain components
• Bank account details