§1Who it is for

  • Farmers, FPOs, agri-preneurs, firms, cooperatives building storage or market infrastructure

Useful if

Founders building warehouses, small cold stores, rural haats or primary processing units

Do not spend time on it if

Projects without a bank term loan

§2Eligibility

  1. Anyone can apply for the scheme.

§3Benefits

  • 1) Ensure remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce
  • 2) Alternative &competitive marketing channels
  • 3) Promotion of small size processing units
  • 4) Reduce post-harvest & handling losses
  • 5) Promote pledge financing and market access
  • 6) Farmer-consumer market linkages and also to assist in integration GrAMs with e-NAM portal

§4Norms — pattern of assistance

  1. Projects for creation of storage infrastructure (50-5000 MT for Private &Cooperatives and 50-10,000 MT for State agencies) and other marketing infrastructure projects (other than storage) are eligible for assistance under the scheme.

§5Documents

Tick each one as you get it ready.

§6How to apply

  1. 1

    [Offline] Step 01:Promoter applies for Term Loan (TL) to Financial Institution (FI)

  2. 2

    Step 02:Tem loan sanctioned by FIs

  3. 3

    Step 03:FI applies for Advance Subsidy within 90 days of disbursal of First instalment of TL through ENSURE portal of NABARD

  4. 4

    Step 04:NABARD, sanctions and releases the Advance Subsidy to the FI

  5. 5

    Step 05:After completion of the project, FI will submit final subsidy claim to NABARD and requests for Joint Monitoring Inspection (JMI)

  6. 6

    Step 06: NABARD will initiate action for conduct of JMI and Geo-tagged photograph taken during JMI is uploaded to the Ensure Portal

  7. 7

    Step 07: NABARD sanctions and releases final subsidy to the FI

§7Pros and cons

Merits

  • Subsidy 25% (33.33% for NER, hilly areas, women/SC/ST promoters and FPOs)
  • Covers storage 50-5,000 MT and many non-storage market assets

Demerits

  • Back-ended, credit-linked subsidy routed through NABARD/bank
  • myScheme text says the scheme was continued till 31.03.2026

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Sources

  1. myScheme — Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure
  2. Guidelines

Checked on 18 October 2026. For information only — confirm with the department or bank. Spotted a mistake? Report it.