The projects should either in the field of agriculture or related to agri industry such as poultry or dairy. The project should provide assured market to FPC, project should ecourage farmers to diversify in to high value crops to increase farm incomes, the project should be accepted by notified financial institution for grant of the term loan. In addition, cost of the project should be atleast INR 15 lakh and INR 10 lakh above for normal and hilly regions respectively and the max. cost of the project cannot exceed INR 5 crore.