Bhavantar Bharpai Yojana
If the mandi price falls below the protected price notified for your crop, the state pays you the difference.
Run by: Department of Horticulture, Government of Haryana
- What is paid
- Mandi price shortfall
- Crops covered
- 21 named horticultural crops
- Register on
- Meri Fasal Mera Byora
- Running since
- 1 January 2018
- Payment turnaround
- Within 15 days of sale
- Cumulative payout
- ₹110cr+ to 24,385 farmers
Overview
Bhavantar Bharpai is a price-deficiency scheme for horticulture, not a procurement scheme. The state notifies a protected price per crop, based on cost of production. If you sell in a mandi below that price, the gap is transferred to your account — nobody buys your produce, and nothing is stored.
It covers 21 named horticultural crops: ladyfinger, chilli, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, cabbage, radish, tomato, onion, potato, cauliflower, carrot, peas, capsicum, brinjal, turmeric and garlic among the vegetables and spices, plus mango, kinnow, guava, litchi and plum among the fruits. The critical detail is that registration on the Meri Fasal Mera Byora portal has to happen before the crop is sold — the scheme has no way to compensate a sale it has no record of.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched the scheme on 1 January 2018, and Haryana remains the only state in the country running a price-deficiency scheme of this kind for vegetables. When a registered farmer sells at an HSAMB mandi during the scheduled window below the protected price, the shortfall is meant to reach their bank account within 15 days. The scheme has genuinely paid out at scale — over ₹110 crore to 24,385 farmers cumulatively, including ₹46.34 crore disbursed in 2023-24 alone.
What you get
The benefit as the state notifies it — nothing here is an estimate.
- The difference between the notified protected price and the price you actually got, paid by DBT.
- Covers roughly 21 horticultural crops — fruits, vegetables and two spice crops.
- Open to owners, lessees and tenant cultivators, not only landowners.
- You keep the produce and sell it where you like; the scheme only tops up the price.
Who is eligible
State schemes usually state their criteria as prose rather than a checklist. This is that prose, unpacked — the department’s verification is what decides.
You qualify if
- Farmer cultivating a covered horticultural crop in Haryana
- Crop and acreage registered on the Meri Fasal Mera Byora portal before sale
- Sale made in a notified mandi with a valid J-form / gate pass
- Verification of the sown area by the Horticulture Department
Not covered
- Crops not on the notified list for that season
- Sales with no mandi record — the shortfall cannot be computed without the sale price
Documents you need
Have these ready before you start — most rejections are a missing paper, not a missing right.
- Meri Fasal Mera Byora registration
- Aadhaar card
- Land record, or the lease deed for a tenant cultivator
- J-form / mandi gate pass for the sale
- Bank passbook
How to apply
Fewer steps than a central scheme, and usually one office rather than a portal.
- 1
Register the crop before you sow or sell
Enter the crop and area on fasal.haryana.gov.in within the registration window. Everything downstream depends on this record existing.
- 2
Let the department verify the area
Horticulture Department staff verify the sown area against the registration. A mismatch caps what can be claimed.
- 3
Sell in a notified mandi and keep the J-form
The mandi sale price is what the shortfall is calculated against. Without a J-form there is no verified price.
If something goes wrong
Missing from the list, or payment stuck — here is the channel the department itself publishes for it.
- For a rejected claim, a disputed sale price, or a payment delayed beyond the 15-day norm, first contact the Horticulture Department office at your local mandi or the district horticulture office.
- If unresolved, escalate through CM Window, Haryana's public grievance redressal and monitoring system, running since 25 December 2014 — file online at cmharyanacell.nic.in or in person at any e-Disha Kendra, DC office or SDM office. You get an SMS with a tracking number, and the prescribed maximum time for disposal is 45 days.
Frequently asked questions
Does the government buy my crop under this scheme?
No. You sell it yourself in the mandi. The state only pays the difference if the price you got was below the protected price notified for that crop.
I registered after selling. Can I still claim?
No. Registration on Meri Fasal Mera Byora has to be in place before the sale, because the claim is matched to a registered crop and area.
Which crops are covered?
Twenty-one named horticultural crops — ladyfinger, chilli, bottle gourd, bitter gourd, cabbage, radish, tomato, onion, potato, cauliflower, carrot, peas, capsicum, brinjal, turmeric and garlic among vegetables and spices, plus mango, kinnow, guava, litchi and plum among fruits. The Horticulture Department can revise this list between seasons.
When did this scheme start, and is it unique to Haryana?
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched it on 1 January 2018. Haryana is still the only state in the country running a price-deficiency scheme of this kind specifically for vegetables.
How quickly does the payment actually arrive?
Within 15 days of a qualifying sale at a notified HSAMB mandi, if the claim is verified and complete. The scheme has paid out over ₹110 crore to more than 24,000 farmers cumulatively, so this is not a rarely-used provision.
Facts checked against hortharyana.gov.in on 20 October 2026. editorial policy.