ITC has inaugurated a new spices processing plant with an annual capacity of 20,400 metric tonnes in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, With the aim, of scaling its export across foreign countries like the US, Canada, Australia, and China.
🏭 About the ITC Spice Plant
- 💲 Investment : ₹200 crores invested in the making of the plant
- 💪 Capacity : 20,400 MT
- It will have the capability to produce over 15 organic spices.
- It has all the processing units incorporated in it from storage, cleaning, processing, sterilization, packing, quality testing, storage, cleaning, processing, sterilization, and packing, to quality testing, For its consumer safety.
- It has incorporated rooftop Solar Panels for Energy generation and also contributes to energy conservation, making the plant efficient by utilizing renewable sources of energy.
- It aims to expand in the global market of Europe, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and China, among other countries.
The plant was inaugurated by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.- It would become the largest spices processing unit in Asia when its second phase is completed in the next 15 months, As said by the CM.
- Near about 5,500 farmer families and over 2,200 livelihoods will be benefited from the starting of this firm.
Sanjiv Puri, chairman, ITC Ltd, Said
We have invested in setting up a world-class export-oriented spices facility in Andhra Pradesh that will offer the finest quality of spices to the world conforming to global food safety export norms, whilst anchoring local agri-value chains. We are indeed delighted that the unit will also be a flag-bearer of sustainability and inclusion owing to its 360 degree initiatives that will support enhanced farmer incomes, foster women empowerment, support large-scale livelihoods as well as promote extensive use of renewable energy.
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