Your farm pond, up to 90% subsidised.

There is no single fixed size — a pond is sized to your land, your water need and your budget. As a planning default we use a standard unit of about 100 × 100 × 10 ft (roughly 30 × 30 × 3 m) — about a quarter-acre of water surface, holding roughly 22 lakh litres. Standard scheme units run from 9 × 9 × 3 m up to that size; the full chart in feet and metres is above. Schemes set a minimum, so we confirm the exact dimensions that fit your plot and the current rules on a site visit.

Under Karnataka's Krishi Bhagya / Krishi Honda scheme, the lined farm-pond subsidy is up to 80% of eligible cost for general applicants and up to 90% for SC/ST applicants. It is paid by Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) into your bank account after the pond is completed and verified — not upfront. Scheme amounts and windows change year to year, so we confirm your current eligibility before you commit.

A standard pond is roughly ₹3–4 lakh all-in, built to spec. After the scheme subsidy is reimbursed, a farmer's effective out-of-pocket is commonly around ₹2 lakh — but this depends on your pond size, your site and the current subsidy rate. Before any work starts we give you a clear written quote showing total cost, expected subsidy and your net.

The pond is lined with an HDPE geomembrane — a tough plastic liner rolled across the bed and up the sides and locked into an anchor trench around the top. It stops water seeping away into the soil, which is what lets the pond hold water reliably. A lined pond is also what the subsidy scheme requires. We set the liner grade to your site and the scheme specification.

You don't navigate the portal alone — that is the part we handle. We check your eligibility, prepare and file the Krishi Bhagya / Krishi Honda application, track it through the state system and secure the sanction, then file the completion paperwork so the DBT payment reaches your account. You start with a phone call; we do the rest.

Engagement to an agreed quote is usually a matter of days. Subsidy sanction is state-dependent and can take a few weeks. The construction itself — dig, shape, line and finish — is typically about one to two weeks depending on pond size. Timelines vary by site and by how the scheme portal is moving, which we walk you through on the call.

Krishi Honda (ಕೃಷಿ ಹೊಂಡ) is Kannada for farm pond — krishi is farming, honda is a pond or tank. It means a dug, lined water-storage pond on a farmer's own land, built to catch and hold water so the farm isn't waiting on the next rain. You'll also see it spelt krushi honda or krushihonda; it's the same thing.

They're related but not the same: one is the thing, the other is the scheme that pays for it. Krishi Honda is the farm pond itself. Krishi Bhagya is the Karnataka government programme that subsidises it, alongside other dryland-farming works like polyhouses, shadenets and pump sets. When people say 'the Krishi Honda scheme', they mean the farm-pond component of Krishi Bhagya.

It depends on the size. Our standard 100 × 100 × 10 ft unit (30 × 30 × 3 m) holds roughly 22 lakh litres when full. The smaller standard units hold proportionally less — a 15 × 15 × 3 m pond is about 4.4 lakh litres. Because the sides slope inward, a pond always holds less than length × width × depth would suggest; the size chart above gives the realistic figure for each standard size.

The scheme is for farmers holding 1 acre or more, with the land registered against your FRUITS ID and a bank account in your own name for the DBT. Applying at the SC/ST rate needs a caste certificate. If you've taken a subsidy for a pump set or drip irrigation in the last three years, that doesn't rule out a farm pond — the exclusion applies to those components. One thing that does matter: work has to start after sanction, because a pond you've already dug generally can't be claimed.