Spices Park at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Spices Park at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Spices Park is a well-conceived approach to empower the farmers to establish direct market linkage with exporters so as to get better price for their produce. The objective of the Spices Park is to provide common infrastructure facilities for processing, value addition and storage of spices to the farming community in the growing regions. The Spices Parks will facilitate the farmers to utilize the common infrastructure facilities for cleaning, grading and packing so as to ensure better quality of the product and thereby help them to fetch a better price.
Spices Board has established a Spices Park at Guntur in an area of 125 Acres of land allotted in Mydavolu & Vankayalapadu village in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh by the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, with the objective to create facilities for value chain development and to establish market linkages to ensure remunerative price to chilli farmers. The park was inaugurated during April 2015. The Spices Park in Guntur is established at a total expenditure of Rs.19.50 crore. The AP State ASIDE has provided a financial support of around Rs.11.60 crore for establishing the Spices Park project at Guntur. The Spices Board spent Rs.7.90 crores from its budget. The Board has established a full line chilli processing facility, storage area for raw materials and finished goods godowns and other basic common facilities like road, drain, uninterrupted power and water supply, firefighting facility etc.
Master Plan of the Project of Spices Park at Guntur
(Front view of Spices Park Guntur)
(A view of Common Processing Unit)
The Board had established all basic common infrastructure facilities in the Park in addition to the processing facilities for the Spices like Chilli. The details of the common infrastructure and processing facilities established in the park are as follows
Basic infrastructure facilities established
Board has developed basic infrastructures facilities like internal Road, Drainage, fire fighting system, Water supply, Power Station, Common Generator for power backup, Bank counter etc. The detailed component of the facilities established are as follows
- Internal roads
- Electricity
- Water, Drainage etc.
- Administrative Office
- Fire fighting system
- Bank counter
Processing Unit & Administrative Block
Warehousing & Cold Storage complex established in the Park
1. Warehousing facility for Chilli
(WAREHOUSE)
(COLD STORAGE COMPLEX)
2. Chilli Processing facilities
Facilities Established Chilli Processing and Value addition
Processing machinery for Chilly
Details of Chilli Processing system installed at Spices Park, Guntur
| Sl No | Description | Capacity | No |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHILLY FEEDING SYSTEM | 1 TPH | 1 |
| 2 | PRE-CLEANING MACHINE | 1 TPH | 1 |
| 3 | PNEUMATIC VIBRO - FEEDER | 500 kg/hr | 1 |
| 4 | HAMMER MILL NO.1 | 500 kg/hr | 1 |
| 5 | HAMMER MILL NO.2 | 500 kg/hr | 1 |
| 6 | COOLING MACHINE FOR CHILLI POWDER | 1 | |
| 7 | DUST COLLECTION SYSTEM | 1 | |
| 8 | POWDER SIFTER | 500 kg/hr | 1 |
| 9 | RECYCLING CONVEYOR | 1 | |
| 10 | BLENDER | 500 kg/hr | 1 |
| 11 | MATERIAL COLLECTION SILO | 2 TPH | 1 |
| 12 | CLEANING MACHINE | 1 | |
| 13 | GRAVITY FEED METAL DETECTOR | 1 | |
| 14 | BULK PACKING MACHINE | 200 bags/hr | 1 |
| 15 | BULK PACKING MACHINE | 200 bags/hr | 1 |
| 16 | VERTICAL FORM FILL SEALING MACHINE | 50 Packs/Minute | 1 |
| 17 | PNEUMATIC AIR COMPRESSOR | 1 | |
| 18 | ELECTRICAL PANEL BOARD | ||
| 19 | ELECTRICAL CABLES |
Association with Private Entrepreneurs
As part of the commitment to encourage the local trading community to Spice export business, the Board had developed plots in the park to lease out to the private entrepreneurs in that locality to establish price processing unit and their by encourage them to Spice export. The Board has divided the total area of 93.42 acres into 58 plots, out of which 49 plots have been allotted to 18 entrepreneurs for establishment of private processing units. Out of which 5 entrepreneurs have completed the establishment and started functioning and 7 entrepreneurs have started construction of their processing unit.
The details of allotment to the private entrepreneurs are given below
| Sl no | Name of the plot allottee | Plot no | Appx Area (Acre) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | M/s ITC | 1, 2, 2A | 6.190 |
| 2 | M/s DK ENTERPRISES | 5 | 1.059 |
| 3 | M/s ACE EXPORTERS | 6 | 1.976 |
| 4 | M/s SWANI SPICE MILLS PVT LTD | 7 | 2.022 |
| 5 | M/s SME AGRITECHS PVT LTD | 8 | 1.765 |
| 6 | M/s NANDYALA SATHYANARAYANA TADEPALLIGUDEM | 9 | 1.260 |
| 7 | M/s GREEN GRASS AGRI COMMODITY | 11A | 1.43 |
| 8 | M/s VENKATRAMA INTERNATIONAL LLP | 12 | 2.43 |
| 9 | M/s SPICEXIM CORPORATION | 13, 28 | 1.910 |
| 10 | M/s UMA EXPORTS LTD | 14, 15 | 1.986 |
| 11 | M/s QUALITY FOOD PRODUCT INDUSTRIES | 16, 17 | 1.980 |
| 12 | M/s GREEN MOUNT SPICES PVT LTD | 18 | 0.865 |
| 13 | M/s ESSKAY AGRO & BIOTECH | 19 | 1.110 |
| 14 | M/s SRI TIRUMALA INDUSTRIES | 19A | 1.193 |
| 15 | M/s INDEPENDENT RESOURCE INDIA PVT LTD | 21 | 0.96 |
| 16 | M/s RAAMI AGRO TRADERS | 27 | 0.992 |
| 17 | M/s. JABS INTERNATIONAL PVT LTD | 24, 25, 26 | 2.979 |
| 18 | M/s. GREEN ASIA IMPEX PVT LTD | 29A | 1.43 |
| 19 | M/s. EXIM RAJATHI | 30 | 5.085 |
| 20 | M/s. DOLLY AGRO FOOD PRODUCTS | 32, 33 | 2.137 |
| 21 | M/s. AP STATE WAREHOUSING CORPORATION | 34 to 44 & 46 to 51 | 24.770 |
| 22 | M/s. PC KANNAN & CO | 45 | 0.931 |
View of Processing unit established by the private entrepreneurs
Current Status
The Board had allotted land to 18 exporters entrepreneurs for establishing their own processing units in the Park. Out of which 5 entrepreneurs has completed the establishment and started functioning and 7 entrepreneurs has started the construction of their processing unit. The common processing facility established by the Board is functioning through the operator M/s.BOS Naturals. The tenure of the existing operation will be expire during November 2021. The Board is in the process of identifying a new operator for operation of Common Processing Unit at Guntur.
M/s. AP State Warehousing Corporation (APSWC) has established 2 Cold storages having a total storage capacity of 13000 MT and a warehouse with a storage capacity of 10000 MT covering 16 plots allotted to them in the park, at a total outlay Rs.60 crore. The APSWC has leased out the two cold storage facilities to two Private Entrepreneurs for operation and is directly operating the warehouse and fully functioning.
M/s. Quality Industries, M/s Raami Agro Traders, M/s Spice Exim M/s ITC Ltd, leading exporters of spices, have commenced the construction of their spice processing unit in the 3 plots allotted to them in the park, at an estimated outlay of Rs.120 crores.