Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure
The revitalized and farmers’ income enhancing centric sub-scheme Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) of Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) is meant for holistic development of agricultural value chain critically focusing each linkage of post-harvest value chain.
About the Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure Scheme
The scheme envisages value addition and processing at farmers level so as to enhance their income by selling more marketable and processed produce in the market. For creation of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure including scientific Storage capacity, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India is implementing capital subsidy sub-scheme “Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI)” of Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM) across the country and is continued till 31.03.2026
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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.
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AMI is an open ended, demand driven, credit linked, back ended subsidy scheme. Beneficiaries viz, Individuals, Agri-preneurs, farmers, FPOs, Cooperatives, and state agencies etc. are eligible for assistance. Under the scheme, the subsidy @ 25% for plain areas and 33.33% for NER, hilly area, Women/SC/ST promoters & FPOs etc is available for development of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure Projects including storage infrastructure, Infrastructure for development/Upgradation of Rural Haats as Grameen Agricultural Market (GrAMs), Common Facilitation Centre for FPOs, Marketing infrastructures in market yards, Infrastructure for direct marketing, Mobile infrastructure for post-harvest operations including reefer vans, Stand-alone cold storages up to 1000 MTs, Integrated Value Chain (IVC) Projects up to primary processing stage etc. Assistance under the sub-scheme is inter-alia available to Individuals, Farmers, Group of farmers/growers, Registered Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs) / FPCs, firms, companies, corporations, NGOs, SHGs, Cooperatives, Cooperative Marketing Federations, Autonomous Bodies of the Government, Local Bodies, Panchayats, State Agencies etc.
Benefits
The scheme envisages the following benefits:
- Ensure remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce
- Alternative &competitive marketing channels
- Promotion of small size processing units
- Reduce post-harvest & handling losses
- Promote pledge financing and market access
- Farmer-consumer market linkages and also to assist in integration GrAMs with e-NAM portal
Eligibility Criteria
Anyone can apply for the scheme.
How to Apply for Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure
Application mode: Offline
Step 01:Promoter applies for Term Loan (TL) to Financial Institution (FI)
Step 02:Tem loan sanctioned by FIs
Step 03:FI applies for Advance Subsidy within 90 days of disbursal of First instalment of TL through ENSURE portal of NABARD
Step 04:NABARD, sanctions and releases the Advance Subsidy to the FI
Step 05:After completion of the project, FI will submit final subsidy claim to NABARD and requests for Joint Monitoring Inspection (JMI)
Step 06: NABARD will initiate action for conduct of JMI and Geo-tagged photograph taken during JMI is uploaded to the Ensure Portal
Step 07: NABARD sanctions and releases final subsidy to the FI
Exclusions
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure scheme?
The scheme envisages value addition and processing at farmers level so as to enhance their income by selling more marketable and processed produce in the market. For creation of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure including scientific Storage capacity, the Ministry of Agricult…
Who is eligible for Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure?
Anyone can apply for the scheme.
What benefits does Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure provide?
The scheme envisages the following benefits: Ensure remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce Alternative &competitive marketing channels Promotion of small size processing units Reduce post-harvest & handling losses Promote pledge financing and market access Farmer-consumer mark…
How can I apply for Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure?
Step 01:Promoter applies for Term Loan (TL) to Financial Institution (FI) Step 02:Tem loan sanctioned by FIs Step 03:FI applies for Advance Subsidy within 90 days of disbursal of First instalment of TL through ENSURE portal of NABARD Step 04:NABARD, sanctions and releases the Advance Subsidy to the…
Source: official scheme details published on the Government of India's myScheme portal. Always verify eligibility and deadlines on the official portal before applying. Scheme rules can change.
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