Benefit
₹30,000 – ₹400,000
Deadline
Ongoing
Beneficiaries
850,000
Sector
Vegetables, Horticulture
Overview
VCDP develops vegetable clusters with focus on production, post-harvest infrastructure, quality improvement, and market integration.
Launched on 01 Apr 2019
Benefits
Subsidy %
50%
Min amount
₹30,000
Max amount
₹400,000
Payment mode
DBT
50% subsidy on infrastructure, Quality seeds, Cold storage, Market linkage, Training
Scheme components:
- Seeds
- Infrastructure
- Training
- Market Linkage
- Cold Chain
Eligibility
- Categories
- Vegetable Farmers, FPOs, Farmer Groups
- Beneficiary type
- Group
- Age
- 18 – no upper limit years
- Land holding
- 0.20 – any acres
- Gender
- All
- States
- All India
How to apply
Application mode: Offline
- Form farmer cluster and apply through State Horticulture Department.
Documents required
- Cluster Formation
- Land Details
- Group Bank Account
- Production Plan
Official links & contacts
Impact & success
250 vegetable clusters formed, Production increased by 35%