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.
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.
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.
The scheme envisages the following benefits:
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
Step 1: Offline — Step 01
Promoter applies for Term Loan (TL) to Financial Institution (FI)
Step 2: Offline — Step 02
Tem loan sanctioned by FIs
Step 3: Offline — Step 03
FI applies for Advance Subsidy within 90 days of disbursal of First instalment of TL through ENSURE portal of NABARD
Step 4: Offline — Step 04
NABARD, sanctions and releases the Advance Subsidy to the FI
Step 5: Offline — Step 05
After completion of the project, FI will submit final subsidy claim to NABARD and requests for Joint Monitoring Inspection (JMI)
Step 6: Offline — Step 06
NABARD will initiate action for conduct of JMI and Geo-tagged photograph taken during JMI is uploaded to the Ensure Portal
Step 7: Offline — Step 07
NABARD sanctions and releases final subsidy to the FI
25% under General category and 33.33% under special category.
Yes @ 33.33%.
Yes
Yes, upto 1000 MT.
No, however, only Reefer Vans are permitted.
No
Yes, however, storage infrastructure projects should be created outside municipal corporation area.
Yes
Yes
No
20%
Yes
Subsidy can be applied within 90 days of disbursement of 1st instalment of Term Loan.
18 months from the date of disbursement of the first instalment of loan, however, extension of time limit by 6 months will be allowed subject to penalty
Above, 1000 MT Storage infrastructure it is mandatory.
Yes
Applications are accepted only on the official government portal.
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