Walmart Foundation and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) launched Secondary Processing Unit (SPU) at Muddalapuram village of Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh state on 10th August 2022.
This factory is inaugurated by Kakani Govardhan Reddy, Minister for Agriculture & Cooperation, Marketing, Food Processing, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
This food industry have an area of 1,000 square meters, is operated by the Rythu Nestham Food Producer Company Ltd (RNFPCL). RNFPCL is a group of 9 FPOs across the 8 mandals of Anantapur district and it was established with support from ICRISAT and Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre (AFEC).
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The factory has 5 processing lines, producing highly nutritious millet and pulse-based ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat formulations such as traditional khichdi and upma mixes, high oleic groundnut products – nutrition bars (chikki), cookies, snacks and savouries, and healthy cold pressed groundnut oil.
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