AP Chambers seeks release of pending incentives

VIJAYAWADA: A delegation of AP Chambers from the food processing sector led by Chambers’ President-elect Potluri Bhaskara Rao met minister for agriculture and food processing Kakani Govardhan Reddy seeking release of pending incentives.

The AP Chambers’ team met the minister at the AP Secretariat on Monday and submitted a representation on the pending incentives to the tune of Rs 180 crore for 225 food processing units in the state.

The leaders requested the immediate release of the long-pending incentives to the food processing units that are already in a difficult situation due to the pandemic and the rise in production costs. Minister Govardhan Reddy assured that all the pending incentives would be released soon to the food processing units.

Later, the AP Chambers' delegation met the Secretary of Food Processing, Industries and Commerce department Chiranjiv Choudary and discussed the issues faced by the food processing sector.

Chiranjiv Choudary responded positively and said that the government would address the issues soon. He also said that the government would constitute a state-level consultative committee that would have frequent interactions with the industry associations to sort out the issues facing the industry.