Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure

Details about Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure

The Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (AMI) scheme aims to increase farmers’ income by enhancing the value and processing of their produce. By focusing on creating modern agricultural marketing infrastructure, including scientific storage facilities, the scheme helps farmers sell more marketable and processed products.

Key Highlights:

• Scheme Duration: Active until March 31, 2026.
• Implemented By: Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India.
• Part of: Integrated Scheme for Agricultural Marketing (ISAM).

Eligible Projects:

• Storage Infrastructure: Capacity of 50-5000 MT for Private and Cooperatives; 50-10,000 MT for State Agencies.
• Other Marketing Infrastructure: Projects that go beyond storage facilities.

Beneficiaries:

• Individuals
• Agri-preneurs
• Farmers
• Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)
• Cooperatives
• State Agencies

Subsidy Details:

• Subsidy Rate: 25% for plain areas; 33.33% for North Eastern Regions, hilly areas, Women/SC/ST promoters, and FPOs.
• Eligible Projects for Subsidy:
  • Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure Projects
  • Storage Infrastructure
  • Upgradation of Rural Haats to Grameen Agricultural Markets (GrAMs)
  • Common Facilitation Centres for FPOs
  • Marketing infrastructure in market yards
  • Direct marketing infrastructure
  • Mobile infrastructure for post-harvest operations (including reefer vans)
  • Stand-alone cold storages up to 1000 MTs
  • Integrated Value Chain (IVC) Projects up to the primary processing stage

Who Can Apply:

• Individuals
• Farmers and groups of farmers/growers
• Registered Farmer Produce Organizations (FPOs) / FPCs
• Firms, companies, and corporations
• NGOs and Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
• Cooperatives and Cooperative Marketing Federations
• Autonomous Bodies of the Government
• Local Bodies and Panchayats
• State Agencies

By participating in the AMI scheme, farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs can significantly improve their infrastructure, making their produce more marketable and increasing their overall income.

Benefits of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure

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

What is the eligibility criteria for Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure?

Anyone can apply for the scheme.

How to apply for Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure?

1. Promoter applies for Term Loan (TL) to Financial Institution (FI)
2. Term loan sanctioned by FIs
3. FI applies for Advance Subsidy within 90 days of disbursal of First instalment of TL through ENSURE portal of NABARD
4. NABARD, sanctions and releases the Advance Subsidy to the FI
5. After completion of the project, FI will submit final subsidy claim to NABARD and requests for Joint Monitoring Inspection (JMI)
6. NABARD will initiate action for conduct of JMI and Geo-tagged photograph taken during JMI is uploaded to the Ensure Portal
7. NABARD sanctions and releases final subsidy to the FI

What are the documents required to apply for Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure?

1. Forwarding letter of Controlling / nodal Office of the financing branch.
   • The advance subsidy claim application of financing branch should be routed through the Controlling / nodal Office to NABARD clearly certifying that all documents as per this check list are enclosed.
   • The complete address with telephone/fax numbers of the controlling / nodal office as well as the financing branch are required to be furnished.
   • A copy of the letter together with a copy of the claim application should be endorsed to DMI RO / SO
2. Advance subsidy claim application as per format in Annexure-V
3. Copy of project report with item-wise details of costs, total outlay, loan and margin submitted by the promoter with a copy of the technical and financial appraisal report from the FI
4. Copy of the approved plan/ map and civil drawings clearly indicating the dimensions and capacity.
5. Copy of the loan sanction letter of the FI along with copies of invoices for purchase of machinery/equipment of infrastructure project if any. Copy of Term Loan Account Statement of the borrower indicating all transactions including disbursement of first instalment of loan.
6. Copy of land documents where the project is going to be established.
7. FI’s certificate on category of the Promoter. In case of SC/ST entrepreneur and Cooperative, certification by the Competent Authority should be obtained.
8. Notarized Affidavit in Original executed by the promoter on a non-judicial stamp paper as per Annexure XV.
9. Copy of duly registered partnership deed, if it is a partnership firm, Memorandum& Articles of Association and certificate of incorporation, in case of Private Limited Company etc.

Source and References

• Guidelines
• Amendments