Horticultural products such fruits, vegetables, cocoa, cashew, coconut, mushrooms, spices, flowers, and aromatic plants are all covered by MIDH. It is an all-state and all-UT program that is centrally sponsored. In addition, MIDH offers administrative assistance and technical guidance to State Governments and State Horticulture Missions (SHMs) about other horticulture-related matters.

Launched in 2005–06, the National Horticulture Mission (NHM) seeks to develop the horticulture industry holistically by guaranteeing forward and backward connectivity through a cluster strategy with the active involvement of all stakeholders. The supply of high-quality planting material through the establishment of nurseries and tissue culture units, production and productivity improvement programs through area rejuvenation and expansion, technology promotion, technology dissemination, human resource development, and the construction of post-harvest management and marketing infrastructure in accordance with each State’s and region’s unique agroclimatic conditions are among the major interventions under NHM.

The mission of the Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan States (HMNEH) is to enhance horticulture in the Northeast and Himalayan states as a whole. All NE states are included in the mission, along with Sikkim and the three Himalayan states of Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh.

The following are the mission’s main goals:
• Encourage the comprehensive development of the horticulture industry, which encompasses bamboo and coconut, by implementing area-based, regionally differentiated strategies. These strategies include research, technology promotion, extension, post-harvest management, processing, and marketing, all in accordance with each State’s or region’s unique agroclimatic features and comparative advantage.
• To bring economies of size and scope, encourage farmers to combine together into FIGs/FPOs and FPCs.
• Increase production through horticulture, increase farmers’ income, and fortify food security; • Boost productivity through planting material, high-quality germplasm, and efficient use of water through micro-irrigation.
• Encourage the development of skills and open up job opportunities in horticulture and post-harvest management, particularly in the cold chain industry, for young people living in rural areas.
Financial support is given for the following significant interventions/activities under MIDH:

• Establishing tissue culture and nurseries to provide high-quality seed and planting material.
• Extension of the area, such as the creation of new gardens and orchards for fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
• Reviving ancient, senile, and unproductive orchards.
• Protected cultivation, i.e. poly-house, green-house, etc, to improve the productivity & grow off season high value vegetables and flowers.
• Organic certification and farming.
• Development of watershed management and water resource structures.
• Growing bees for pollination.
• Mechanization in Horticulture.
• Building the infrastructure for marketing and post-harvest management.