Is drip and fertigation for a new mango orchard one subsidy or two separate claims?

They are usually two separate components and you can often claim both for the same new orchard, but through different windows. The new orchard or area expansion claim covers establishing the mango plants under MIDH with its per hectare cost norm spread over the first years and tied to survival. The drip and fertigation system is a separate claim, normally under the micro irrigation scheme (Per Drop More Crop), with its own cost norm and subsidy share that is higher for small and marginal and SC, ST and women farmers. So on the same field you raise two applications: one for the orchard establishment and one for the drip system. The benefit is real because a high density orchard with drip and fertigation is exactly the kind of project these schemes want to encourage. Each follows its own cost norm, percentage and verification, and the drip is often vendor settled while the orchard is staggered to you over years. Confirm whether both can be applied in the same season for the same field in your state on your state horticulture portal, and time the drip installation with planting so verification is clean.