The Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) has developed a food park on a 23-acre piece of land with 111 plots to encourage food and food processing units at Vetlapalem area of Samarlakota mandal in East Godavari district..
The food park has been developed under the Micro Small Enterprises Cluster Development Programme (MSE-CDP) under which the Central government has granted ₹ 6 crore.
“The Andhra Pradesh government has granted ₹3 crore for the project, in which 16% of the units will be allotted to the entrepreneurs belonging to Scheduled Caste.”, said APIIC Kakinada Zonal Manager K.P. Sudhakar. However, 6% of the units will be allotted to those belonging to Scheduled Tribes.