Vepuri Agro Products Pvt Ltd is setting up a new coconut-based food processing plant at R.S.No.11/1, 11/3, 11/4, 11/7, 11/8, State Food Park, Mallavalli Village, Bapulapadu Mandal, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, spread over an area of 6,500 sq. mtrs, with a proposed investment of Rs. 140 Million. The State Pollution Control Board has granted Consent to Establish for the facility, which will manufacture a range of coconut-derived products including frozen grated coconut (3500 kg/day), ready-to-make coconut chutney (500 kg/day), packaged coconut milk (3000 kg/day), packaged coconut cream (1500 kg/day), coconut yogurt and flavored coconut milk drinks (2500 kg/day), coconut milk based ice cream (200 kg/day), packaged coconut water (2000 kg/day), neera products (500 kg/day), and frozen coconut nuggets made with tender coconut pulp (200 kg/day), along with raw coconut shell as a by-product (4000 kg/day). The plant is expected to be equipped with processing lines for coconut de-husking, grating, milk extraction, pasteurization, homogenization, cold storage and packaging units, along with an effluent treatment plant, boiler with briquette-fired system, DG set with acoustic enclosure, and air pollution control equipment such as a cyclone dust collector, to support the food processing operations while meeting environmental compliance norms.