FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT FUND (FIDF)
In the Union Budget 2018, the Hon’ble Finance Minister announced setting up of a Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF) for fisheries sector. Accordingly, during 2018-19, the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Government of India created a dedicated fund, FIDF, with a total funds size of Rs 7522.48 crore. FIDF envisages creation of fisheries infrastructure facilities both in marine and inland fisheries sectors and augment the fish production to achieve the target of 15 million tonnes by 2020 set under the Blue Revolution. Besides, the FIDF aims to achieve a sustainable growth of 8-9 per cent, in a move to augment the country’s fish production to the level of about 20 million tonnes by 2022-23.
While extending FIDF, Government of India has, inter alia, approved providing credit guarantee facility under FIDF during the extended period of 3 years from 01.04.2023 to 31.03.2026 (FY 2023-24 to FY 2025-26) from the existing credit guarantee fund under Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD). Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
FIDF provides concessional finance to the Eligible Entities (EEs), including State Governments/Union Territories and State entities for development of identified fisheries infrastructure facilities through Nodal Loaning Entities (NLEs) namely
1) National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
2) National Cooperatives Development Corporation (NCDC)
3) All scheduled Banks
2) National Cooperatives Development Corporation (NCDC)
3) All scheduled Banks
Under the FIDF, the Department of Fisheries provides interest subvention up to 3% per annum for providing the concessional finance by the NLEs at the interest rate not lower than 5% per annum. Loan lending period under FIDF is five years from 2018-19 to 2022-23 and maximum repayment period of 12 years inclusive of moratorium of 2 years on repayment of principal.
National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), Hyderabad is the Nodal Implementing Agency for FIDF Scheme. NFDB has developed an online FIDF Portal. The portal encompasses information vv.r.t FIDF for all stakeholders, online application form for all types of entities, online processing and approval of FIDF applications. Each of the stakeholders have been given separate login for processing of the respective application. The portal also has FIDF Dashboard to monitor the progress of applications on a real time basis.
During the FY 2025-26(As on July, 2025), a total 163 project proposals of various States/UTs and private entrepreneurs at a total project's cost of Rs. 6273.31crore with the project cost for interest subvention at Rs. .4209.05 crore have been approved.
New project's proposals under FIDF scheme can be submitted in online at https://nfdb.gov.in/welcome/FIDF or offline through email fidf.nfdb@gmail.com with detailed project report. For more information, log into the portal below or call the toll-free number 1800-425-1660
Apply now & scale up your fisheries business.
Website: https://dof.gov.in/fidf ; https://www.fidf.in www.nfdb.gov.in
Email: info.nfdb@nic.in : fidf.nfdb@gmail.com
Credit Guarantee Scheme for Fisheries Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF); Website: https://www.nabard.org/nabsanrakshan.aspx
Credit Guarantee Portal Link: https://cglogin.nabsanrakshan.org Email : ho@nabsanrakshan.org Land line No: 022-26539410
| S.No | Title | Download/Link |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | FIDF Scheme extension till (31-03-2026) | Download (7.62 MB) |
| 2. | FIDF Brochure | Download (1112 kB) |
| 3 | DPR Format for FIDF | Download (1112 kB) |
| 4 | Credit Guarantee Guidlines | Download (4.10 MB) |
| 5 | FIDF covering letter of guidelines on (12-02-2019) | Download (2.5 MB) |
| 6 | Guidelines for Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund on ( 10-07-2019) | Download (1,824 KB) |
| 7 | FIDF Admn Approval on (02-12-2018) | Download (3.9 MB) |
| 8 | Guidelines on implementation of Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund Addendum to the Notified on (10-07-2019) | Download (1,031 KB) |
| 9 | Credit Guarantee Scheme for loans sanctioned under FIDF | Download (512 KB) |
| Year wise approved Projects under FIDF Scheme (as on June, 2025) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| FY | Total No. of Proposal Approved | Total Project Cost (Crores) | Eligible Interest Subvention (Crores) |
| 2019-20 | 11 | 1726.11 | 981.90 |
| 2020-21 | 38 | 1919.61 | 1190.43 |
| 2021-22 | 21 | 132.65 | 131.31 |
| 2022-23 | 51 | 1810.91 | 1434.59 |
| 2023-24 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Prior Extension of FIDF Total | 121 | 5589.54 | 3738.54 |
| 2024-2025 | 21 | 327.02 | 209.19 |
| 2025-2026 | 31 | 387.60 | 285.31 |
| TOTAL APPROVED | 173 | 6369.79 | 4261.21 |
| TOTAL DROPPED PROJECT | 19 | 684.94 | 345.27 |
| CURRENTLY ACTIVE PROJECTS | 154 | 5684.85 | 3915.84 |
| State wise Projects approved under FIDF Scheme | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI NO. | Name of State | No. of private Projects | No. of Govt Projects | Total No. of projects approved | Total Project Cost (Amount Rs. in crores) | Amount eligible for interest subvention (Amount Rs. in crores) |
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1396.83 | 653.06 |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.68 | 0.54 |
| 3 | Assam | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.41 | 0.18 |
| 4 | Goa | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6.42 | 5 |
| 5 | Gujarat | 0 | 4 | 4 | 962.92 | 600.00 |
| 6 | Haryana | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.17 | 0.64 |
| 7 | Himachal Pradesh | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5.17 | 5 |
| 8 | Jammu and Kashmir | 2 | 0 | 2 | 120.7 | 93.17 |
| 9 | Karnataka | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1.44 | 0.79 |
| 10 | Kerala | 3 | 1 | 4 | 211.98 | 186.56 |
| 11 | Maharashtra | 19 | 5 | 24 | 1111.86 | 833.34 |
| 12 | Manipur | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1.15 | 0.9 |
| 13 | Mizoram | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.14 | 3.31 |
| 14 | Odisha | 1 | 7 | 8 | 120.17 | 59.48 |
| 15 | Puducherry | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2.46 | 1.97 |
| 16 | Tamil Nadu | 3 | 63 | 66 | 1342.70 | 1188.30 |
| 17 | Telangana | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.7 | 2.31 |
| 18 | Uttar Pradesh | 2 | 0 | 2 | 75.22 | 60.09 |
| 19 | West Bengal | 3 | 6 | 9 | 44.42 | 32.96 |
| 20 | Uttarakhand | 0 | 1 | 1 | 170 | 133 |
| 21 | Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5.00 | 4.00 |
| 22 | Jharkhand | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3.68 | 2.94 |
| TOTAL | 66 | 107 | 173 | 6369.79 | 4261.21 | |
| Components approved Projects under FIDF Scheme | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sr. No. | Name of the Activity | No. of Projects approved | Project Cost approved | Project cost restricted for Interest Subvention |
| 1 | Brood Banks | 2 | 14.20 | 11.86 |
| 2 | Ice Plants/Cold Storages | 9 | 24.86 | 11.39 |
| 3 | Development of Aquaculture including Cage culture in reservoir &Mari culture | 9 | 14.71 | 9.48 |
| 4 | Fish Landing Centres | 27 | 234.81 | 212.20 |
| 5 | Fish Processing Plant/Unit | 7 | 170.65 | 88.41 |
| 6 | Modernization Fish Seed Farm | 30 | 129.78 | 116.63 |
| 7 | Fishing Harbours & Including Additional Facilities in Fishing Harbour | 28 | 5051.02 | 3281.79 |
| 8 | Development of Hatcheries | 3 | 6.75 | 1.20 |
| 9 | Fish Feed Mills | 2 | 2.45 | 1.96 |
| 10 | Training Centre | 11 | 60.78 | 49.51 |
| 11 | Deep-Sea Fishing Vessel | 4 | 8.34 | 3.20 |
| 12 | Any other/Innovative Projects | 41 | 651.45 | 473.59 |
| TOTAL | 173 | 6369.79 | 4261.21 | |
