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Badal commissions Godavari Mega Aqua Food Park in AP’s Tundurru village
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Wednesday, 13 February, 2019, 15 : 00 PM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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Godavari Mega Aqua Food Park, located at Tundurru Village in Bhimavaram Mandal, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, was commissioned by Pushpa Subrahmanyam, secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), on behalf of food processing industries minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal via video conferencing on Wednesday.
The park, which is promoted by Godavari Mega Aqua Food Park Pvt Ltd, is the first operationalised Mega Aqua Food Park exclusively established for fish and marine products processing in the southern state.
It has been set up on 57.81 acre of land at a cost of Rs 122.60 crore. The facilities created by the developer at the Central Processing Centre (CPC) of this Mega Food Park include a pre-processing line for fish of 1.5 TPH (tonne per hour), a pre-processing line for shrimp of 1.5 TPH, freezing of fish of 1.5 TPH, freezing of shrimp of 1.5 TPH, cold storage for fish of 2,000 MT (metric tonne), cold storage for shrimp of 1,000MT, an ice plant, a food testing laboratory and state-of-the-art enabling infrastructure.
The facility also has a common administrative building for office and other uses by the entrepreneurs and two PPCs (primary processing centres) at Amalapura (East Godavari District) and Karlapalem (Guntur District) having facilities for primary processing and storage near the farms in the catchment area to benefit farmers.
It is expected to benefit the people of West Godavari District, as well as the nearby districts of East Godavari and Krishna in Andhra Pradesh and the nearby districts of Telangana.
The modern infrastructure for food processing created at the park will benefit the farmers, growers, processors and consumers of Andhra Pradesh and adjoining areas immensely, and prove to be a big boost to the growth of the food processing sector in Andhra Pradesh.
This is the second mega food park in Andhra Pradesh. Located in Chittoor district, it was inaugurated in 2012. MoFPI has sanctioned another mega food park in the state. It is under implementation at Krishna District.
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