Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund AHIDF
A 3% interest subvention on loans covering up to 90% of project cost for businesses investing in dairy and meat processing, animal feed, breeding farms, vaccines and animal waste projects.
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- Cost to apply
- Free
- Status
- Open
- Run by
- Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying
What you get
- 3% interest subvention
- Loans up to 90% of project cost with no cap on the credit amount
- Interest capped at EBLR plus 200 basis points for MSMEs
- The Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund was merged into AHIDF in February 2024
Who can apply
- Open to businesses in farming, fisheries and livestock and food processing.
- Open to individual entrepreneurs, private companies, MSMEs, FPOs, cooperatives and Section 8 companies
- Projects in dairy or meat processing and value addition, animal feed, breed improvement and multiplication farms, veterinary vaccines and drugs, animal waste to wealth, and primary wool processing
Worth knowing
Revised outlay ₹29,610 crore. 465 projects approved by 10 December 2025.
Where we found this
- PIB, Year end review of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, 7 January 2026 (external site) Official announcement
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