A small IQF freezing and vacuum-pack unit on the Godavari estuary turning local shrimp into clean, retail-grade frozen packs for Vijayawada metro retail and online seafood D2C. The edge: filling the missing middle between informal village handling and distant Vizag export plants.
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Yanam sits on the productive Godavari-estuary brackish-water zone, and the marine fisheries and aquaculture atom feeds steady shrimp-pond and fishing yields. Today processing splits between informal village-scale handling and large export plants in Visakhapatnam — the branded, small-batch, retail-grade middle is missing, which is exactly the raw harvest to peeled, frozen & export-graded gap. Build a small unit handling a few hundred kilos a day: grading, peeling, IQF freezing and vacuum packing, selling to Vijayawada-metro retailers within easy trucking distance and to online seafood D2C brands. The honest constraints, matching the elevated risk: meeting MPEDA-equivalent microbial-load specs even for domestic premium retail, white-spot disease risk in the shrimp supply, cold-chain integrity from pond to pack, and building a handful of standing buyer accounts before volume justifies the freezer. FSSAI and MPEDA registration are non-negotiable. Start with frozen shrimp alone; add a whitefish range only once the cold chain and buyer base are proven.
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