Rashtriya Gokul Mission, Breed Multiplication Farm Subsidy

What is the Rashtriya Gokul Mission Breed Multiplication Farm subsidy?

Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) is a scheme of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, created to raise the productivity of indigenous bovine breeds. The Breed Multiplication Farm (BMF) component was the mission's entrepreneurship window: it offered a one-time capital subsidy of 50% of project cost, up to a maximum of Rs 2 crore, to a private entrepreneur who set up a commercial breeding farm of at least 200 milch cows or buffaloes.

The problem the component was designed to solve is stated plainly in the RGM operational guidelines: farmers and new dairy entrepreneurs had no organised source of disease-free, high-yielding heifers and depended on middlemen or on other farmers selling low-producing animals. A Breed Multiplication Farm was meant to breed elite female calves using sex-sorted semen or IVF technology, test them for tuberculosis, Johne's disease and brucellosis, and sell them on to farmers on a cost basis.

Current status: read this before you apply. DAHD closed the BMF application portal, www.eoi.nddb.coop, to fresh applications with effect from 1 October 2024 through order N-05/19/2024-CDD dated 30 September 2024. The NDDB portal now carries the message that the BMF scheme is closed as targets have been achieved. The revised RGM operational guidelines issued on 4 June 2025 do not list Breed Multiplication Farms among the components open for new proposals; they refer only to "Breed Multiplication Farms already set up under RGM". Rashtriya Gokul Mission itself continues, the Union Budget 2026-27 provides Rs 800 crore for it, but this particular subsidy is a legacy window for existing sanctioned projects.

Who was eligible for the Breed Multiplication Farm subsidy?

You could apply if:

• You were a private individual entrepreneur, or an FPO, FCO, SHG, JLG or Section 8 company.
• You had appropriate experience in breeding or rearing farm animals.
• You owned or held a lease deed for land large enough to house 200 animals and their followers. Land cost was never subsidised.
• You could arrange the remaining 50% of project cost as a loan from a scheduled bank, NCDC or another financial institution, on whatever margin money and collateral terms the lender set.
• You were willing to make your own arrangements for feed and fodder.

An applicant who had already taken a loan under the Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) for the same breed multiplication farm was expressly allowed to also draw the RGM capital subsidy.

You cannot apply now, and these applicants were never eligible:

• Any new applicant after 30 September 2024: the portal is closed and no offline substitute route has been notified.
• A small dairy farmer buying two or three animals. The minimum farm size was 200 milch cows or buffaloes; this was never a smallholder benefit.
• An applicant with no loan sanction and no experience in animal breeding.
• Anyone seeking a subsidy for land purchase, which is excluded from the eligible capital cost.

How much was the Breed Multiplication Farm subsidy and how was it paid?

The RGM operational guidelines cost a model 200-animal farm at about Rs 4 crore, so the 50% subsidy worked out to a maximum of Rs 2 crore. The subsidy covered housing and cattle sheds, isolation sheds, the administration block, machinery and equipment, and the purchase of breeding animals including their transport and insurance. It did not cover land.

Payment was routed through the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and credited directly into the entrepreneur's loan account, in three tranches:

1. 50% of the subsidy after DAHD approved the project and the bank released its first tranche of the loan.
2. 25% after NDDB reported that the full infrastructure was in place and the animals had been inducted.
3. The last 25% after NDDB reported that 10% of the expected calves had been born at the farm.

Assets created under the component are GIS-tagged and state governments were asked to carry out physical monitoring at regular intervals.

How to apply for a Breed Multiplication Farm subsidy

These are the steps that applied while the window was open. They are recorded here because sanctioned projects still follow them for later tranches, and because entrepreneurs need to know what the process looked like if the component is ever reopened.

1. Prepare a bankable detailed project report for a farm of at least 200 milch cows or buffaloes, following the RGM model project: herd composition, sheds at 10 square metres per cow, disease-testing protocol and the plan to use sex-sorted semen or IVF technology.
2. Tie up a loan with a scheduled bank, NCDC or another financial institution for 50% of the project cost, and obtain the sanction letter.
3. Register on the NDDB expression-of-interest portal at eoi.nddb.coop and submit the proposal with land documents, KYC papers and the loan sanction. NDDB floated the expression of interest under which proposals were invited.
4. Wait for NDDB screening. A committee constituted by NDDB screened every application for eligibility and recommended eligible projects to the lending bank for sanction.
5. NDDB submits the project to DAHD with proof from the bank that the loan is sanctioned. DAHD grants final approval.
6. Claim each subsidy tranche as the milestones above are reached, through NDDB into your loan account.

What is the Heifer Rearing Centre component and who gets 35%?

The revised RGM guidelines of June 2025 added a Heifer Rearing Centre (HRC) component that works on the same logic as a breed multiplication farm but is open to institutions rather than individuals. Under it, DAHD gives one-time assistance of 35% of the capital cost for creating the housing facility and for inducting heifers.

Key facts from the guidelines:

• Who can set one up: milk unions, milk federations, milk producer companies, dairy-sector Self Help Groups and State Livestock Development Boards. An individual farmer cannot apply.
• Size: at least 500 heifers per centre, with fodder cultivation, silage making and fodder block making facilities.
• Target: 30 centres covering 15,000 heifers, with housing costed at Rs 1 lakh per heifer and heifer induction at Rs 30,000 per animal.
• Genetic merit floor for heifers procured: dam's lactation yield above 2,500 kg for indigenous cattle breeds such as Gir, Sahiwal, Red Sindhi, Rathi, Kankrej and Tharparkar; above 3,000 kg for buffalo breeds such as Murrah, Jaffarabadi, Mehsana and Nili Ravi; above 4,000 kg for HF crossbreds and 3,000 kg for Jersey crossbreds.
• After the grant: heifers are reared to maturity, impregnated with high-genetic-merit sex-sorted-semen IVF embryos, and sold as pregnant heifers at market price. The centre is expected to become self-sustaining on those sales, and the implementing agency arranges the balance 65% from its own resources or a loan, including from NCDC.

A farmer who buys a high-genetic-merit IVF heifer from such a centre can separately claim 3% interest subvention on the loan used to buy it, for up to six heifers.

How to check the status of a Breed Multiplication Farm application

1. Log in to the NDDB expression-of-interest portal at eoi.nddb.coop with the credentials created at registration.
2. Open the application dashboard to see whether the proposal is at screening, recommended to the bank, pending DAHD approval, or sanctioned.
3. For sanctioned projects, follow up tranche release with the NDDB project team and with your lending bank, since the subsidy is credited to the loan account and not to a personal savings account.
4. Where the portal shows no movement, write to DAHD's Cattle Development Division through the contact page on dahd.gov.in, quoting your application number.

Why Breed Multiplication Farm applications were rejected

• Farm size below 200 milch animals, which is the guideline minimum.
• No loan sanction letter. NDDB could not send a project to DAHD without written proof from the bank that 50% of the cost was sanctioned.
• Land not owned or leased, or too small to house 200 animals and followers.
• No demonstrable breeding or rearing experience.
• Subsidy claimed on land cost or on working capital, both of which are outside the eligible capital cost.
• Applications filed after 30 September 2024, once the portal closed.

Where to raise a grievance

• Implementing agency: National Dairy Development Board, Anand, Gujarat, the agency that screens BMF proposals and releases the subsidy.
• Nodal department: Cattle Development Division, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi, reachable through the contact page on dahd.gov.in.
• State level: your State Livestock Development Board or the State Animal Husbandry Department, which handles physical monitoring of sanctioned farms.

DAHD has not published a dedicated toll-free helpline for Rashtriya Gokul Mission, so grievances go through the department's written contact route or the CPGRAMS public grievance portal. No agent can charge you a fee for "getting a BMF sanction", and the component is in any case closed to new applications.

Who is eligible

Rashtriya Gokul Mission now runs two separate capital-subsidy windows under one umbrella, and eligibility differs by window. Use this table to check which one, if any, applies to you.

You do not qualify for either window if:

• You want to buy just two or three animals for your own household; both windows are institutional-scale, not smallholder benefits.
• You are applying as an individual farmer for a Heifer Rearing Centre; that window is restricted to unions, federations, producer companies, dairy SHGs and state boards.
• You are a new applicant to the Breed Multiplication Farm route after 30 September 2024, since no offline substitute has been notified.
• You expect the subsidy to cover land purchase or working capital; both windows exclude these from the eligible capital cost.

A related but separate eligibility track: a farmer who buys a high-genetic-merit IVF heifer from an HRC can claim 3% interest subvention on the purchase loan, for up to six heifers per farmer. This is an individual-farmer entitlement layered on top of the institutional HRC subsidy, not a route into the HRC subsidy itself.