Eligible Projects

Eligible projects under AIF

A. Eligible projects for all beneficiaries

Organic inputs production
Bio stimulant production units
Nursery
Tissue culture
Seed Processing
Custom Hiring Center
Infrastructure for smart and precision agriculture
1. Farm/Harvest Automation
2. Purchase of drones, putting up specialized sensors on field, Blockchain and AI in agriculture etc.
3. Remote sensing and Internet of Things (IOT) such as automatic weather station, Farm advisory services through GIS applications.
Logistics facilities - Reefer Van& Insulated vehicles
Assaying Units
Supply chain services including e-marketing platforms
Warehouse & Silos
Cold Stores and Cold Chain
Packaging Units
Primary Processing activities

Crop Wise List of Eligible Primary Processing Activities

Sl. No.	Crops	Eligible Activities	Not Eligible
1.	Cereals & Millets Wheat, rice, sorghum,barley, maize, oat, etc.	Cleaning De-stoning Sorting & grading Hulling Milling (flour, maida, sooji, daliya) Pounding Grinding Tempering Parboiling Soaking Drying Sieving Irradiation Packaging Flaking Storage (warehouse, silos)	Fermentation Baking Puffing Frying Extrusion Blending Roasting Rice fortification (Bread, biscuits, pasta, snack foods, etc. not eligible)
2.	Fruits and vegetables	Washing Cleaning Drying Sorting Grading Freezing (IQF & blast) Blanching for primary processing Cooling Waxing Conditioning Packhouse Cold store Ripening chamber Reefer van Bucket elevators Packaging	Dehydrated products Concentrated products Canning Juice extraction Sauces Candies Jam and Jelly
3.	Oilseeds & Oil palms Groundnut, rapeseed & mustard, soybean, sunflower, sesame, safflower, linseed, olives, oil palm etc.	Cleaning De-stoning De-husking (decorticating machines) Winnowing Oil extraction (ghani, hydraulic press etc.) Solvent Extraction Oil seed cake	Refining
4.	Pulses Bengal Gram , Pigeon Peas, Green Gram, Chick Peas, Black Gram, Red Kidney Beans, Black Eyed Peas, White Peas etc.	Cleaning De-stoning Drying Sorting & grading De-husking Splitting De-hulling Milling (Besan) Irradiation Packaging Storage	Canning Products like Papads Pulse based ready to eat foods Puffed chickpea
5.	Spices Red chilli, Cumin, Clove, Coriander, Cinnamon, Garlic, Ginger, Turmeric, Fenugreek,Cardamom etc.	Cleaning Drying Sorting Boiling Polishing Grinding Packaging Storage Irradiation	Roasted products Paste
6.	Cash Crops
	Cotton	Cleaning Drying Ginning Pressing & Bailing Linting Cotton seed oil Seed cake	Fibre making FibreScouring Weaving
	Sugarcane	Cane unloading Cleaning Cane breaking Cane milling Straining Evaporators Centrifugation Storage tanks Dryers Sugar crystals Jaggery Packaging & storage	Formation of paper & board with bagasse Fermentation Alcoholic distillation
	Jute	Cutting Retting Stripping Washing Drying Bailing Packing Storage	Formation of Jute cloth Bags Sacks
	Tea & coffee	Cleaning & Washing Withering Rolling Fermentation Drying Sorting Drying of cherries Hulling Pulping Oxidation Packaging (including tea bags) White tea, green tea, black tea	Formation of chocolates
	Coconut	Dehusking Deshelling Cutting Drying (copra) Grinding Extraction of coconut water Coconut milk extraction Centrifugation Hot processing Virgin coconut oil Packaging	Cream Butter
	Rubber	Mastication Mixing Shaping Curing Irradiation	Secondary rubber products like tyres, mattresses, bottles, boots etc.
	Tobacco	Cleaning Grading Sorting Curing Drying Storage	Making of Chew, Cigars, Dips etc.
7.	Nuts Cashew Almonds Walnuts Pistachios etc.	Cleaning Grading Streaming in boiler Shell cutting Drying Peeling Grading Packaging Shelling Separation Packaging Hulling Washing Drying Storage Packaging Conveying belts	Cashew fruit juice Roasted products Nut spreads Almond milk Powder Spreads Roasting
8.	Herbal, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops Barberry, Liquorice, Bael, Isabgol,Guggal, Kerth, Aonla, Chandan, Senna, Baiberang, Brahmi, Eucalyptus, Jatamansi etc.	Cleaning Sorting Drying Milling Extraction of oil Packaging Storage	Syrup Pills Cream Frying
9.	Bamboo	Drying Cutting Stripping Formation of sheets Bamboo Charcoal Powder Granules Bamboo treatment plant Bamboo depots &godown	Processed food products like pickles, curry etc. Products such as fibre, furniture, agarbatti, etc.
10.	Fodder crops Berseem, forage sorghum, etc.	Cutting Mixing Grinding	Pelleting
11.	Tuber crops Sweet Potatoes, Cassava etc.	Peeling and washing Grating Fermentation Drying Sieving Milling Storage	Alcoholic products Starch
12.	Arecanut	Cleaning Dehusking Peeling Splitting Boiling Drying Packaging	Preparation of hardboard, insulation wool, cushions, paper, paper board etc.

B. Eligible projects for building community farming assets

In addition to above activities farmer groups such as FPOs, PACS, SHGs, JLGs, Cooperatives, National and State Level Federation of Co-operatives, FPOs federations, Federations of SHGs, National and State Level Agencies etc. are eligible for following activities:

Hydroponic Farming
Mushroom farming
Vertical farming
Aeroponic farming
Poly house/ Greenhouse
Logistics facilities(including non-refrigerated/insulated vehicles)

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