• Offers from Central Government:

– Capital goods to be imported duty free and allowed to be installed anywhere in the AEZ under the EPCG Scheme. Units in AEZ exempted from Bank Guarantee under this scheme.
– Duty free fuel for running DG sets.
• Offers from State Government:
– Exemption of sales tax and other taxes/duties, if any, on all inputs used for export of fresh & processed products.

• Offers from Central Government Agencies:

The Central Government agencies like NHB, APEDA, MFPI, MOA, NCDC, SFAC, IIP, and CFTRI offer financial assistance for activities that include:
– Productivity enhancement
– Micro irrigation
– Improvement in product quality through R&D
– Pre and Post harvest training and extension services
– Maintaining Cool Chain
– Development of international level packaging material
– Market development

Other Assistances include:
– Freight assistance for selected products and transport assistance for selected regions.
– Credit from banks to farmers at concessional rate for purchase of inputs, at par with packaging credit to exporters.

• Offer from State Government:
Available Financial Assistance schemes of states.

Amendments and state’s statutes to give benefits to entrepreneurs e.g. Removal of Market Cess etc.
• Administrative Benefits:
– Availability of administrative machinery viz.
                   … Staff for extension services
                   … Involvement of officials for control and monitoring of AEZ activities.
                   … Web based online activity tracking system through www.apeda.com
• Interactive association with Agriculture Universities and Research Institutions for research activities
• Immediate power connections from SEBs and need based power supply to post harvest facilities, packhouses and processing units.
• Immediate permission will be granted to the units to generate their own electricity without any minimum charges and above all, a visible commitment from the central and state govt. to provide all possible support.
• Improvement of road networking in the AEZ area by the state