Chief Minister Agriculture and Food Processing Scheme

What is Chief Minister Agriculture and Food Processing Scheme?

to encourage model technology based projects and quality enhancement of agriculture produce, to encourage exports, to create skill manpower for agro and food processing and employment generation through small and medium agro and food processing units in rural areas.

Benefit

Elements of the Scheme - Under this scheme, three components are included as follows. Component No.1 – Establishment of agriculture and food processing units, their upgradation and modernization. Component No. 2 - The cold chain. To establish food processing projects related to pre-processing centre and integrated cold chain. Financial Assistance: i. 30% subsidy for construction of factories and machines of Processing Unit (Civil work for housing processing unit) and maximum limit of Rs.50.00 lakhs. ii. Subsidy will be given on the basis of “Credit Linked Back ended subsidy” in two similar instalments, a) After completion of the project and b) After full commercial production. iii. Loan amount should one and half times more than subsidy.

Level

State — Maharashtra

Ministry / Dept.

Agriculture Department

Benefit type

cash

Key eligibility

The beneficiary should have age above 18 years The beneficiary should have Aadhaar Card/ Pan Card . The beneficiary should have Good Bank CIBIL Score The beneficiary have 7/12 certificate and 8 –A certificate or Lease documents

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Benefits

Elements of the Scheme - Under this scheme, three components are included as follows. Component No.1 – Establishment of agriculture and food processing units, their upgradation and modernization. Component No. 2 - The cold chain. To establish food processing projects related to pre-processing centre and integrated cold chain. Financial Assistance: i. 30% subsidy for construction of factories and machines of Processing Unit (Civil work for housing processing unit) and maximum limit of Rs.50.00 lakhs. ii. Subsidy will be given on the basis of “Credit Linked Back ended subsidy” in two similar instalments, a) After completion of the project and b) After full commercial production. iii. Loan amount should one and half times more than subsidy.

Eligibility

Documents Required

How to Apply

1. Step 1: Offline application — step 1

   1. Applicant (Entrepreneur)

2. Step 2: Offline application — step 2

   2. Proposal submitted with bank loan approval to District Superintendent Agriculture Officer

3. Step 3: Offline application — step 3

   3. Pre-project feasibility study through the Deputy Director of Agriculture, District Superintendent Agriculture Office/Sub-divisional agricultural Officer and with the recommendation of the District Project Implementation Committee

4. Step 4: Offline application — step 4

   4. Major Document Verification for Grant Payment- CA Certificate, Original Bank Loan Sanction, Original Bank Appraisal, CE -Civil & Mechanical, Bank Reserve fund Acc. Details, recommendation of District level Project Implementation Committee and strategic inspection report etc.

5. Step 5: Offline application — step 5

   5. In-principle approval of eligible projects in Commissionerate level Project Approval Committee meeting

6. Step 6: Offline application — step 6

   6. As per the recommendation of the District level Project Implementation Committee, after the completion of the project construction, the first phase and the second phase, when the project is in full production capacity, the subsidy will be deposited in the reserve fund account of the bank.

Sources & References

• Official scheme website ↗
• Source record ↗
• Information is summarised from official government sources. Verify all details on the official website before applying.