Vannamei shrimp · Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh
Cofoods Processors is a vertically integrated processor and exporter of frozen Vannamei shrimp. We breed, farm, process and freeze in the Krishna delta, and ship IQF and block frozen product to importers, repackers and retail programmes in seven markets.
Pond to blast freezer
3–5 hours
Our own farms sit close to the plant. Shrimp reach the freezer within hours of harvest, under continuous cold chain control.
Backward integration
Buyers get supply certainty and a product history they can trace. When open market raw material is short or uneven, our own chain keeps programmes running.
Group company hatcheries produce the seed.
Feed distribution and precision feeding for our farms and partner farmers.
About 500 acres of farms plus a satellite farmer network.
Automatic grading, peeling and deveining to buyer specification.
IQF and plate freezing, metal detection on every lot.
Lot-level traceability from hatchery to the carton you receive.
Product range
Block frozen in medium counts for reprocessing and repacking, or IQF for retail and foodservice.
Tail off. Available as non-phosphate, clean label product for retail private label.
Includes IQF curl control to the Russia and CIS branded retail standard.
Shell on, cut and deveined along the back for fast peeling at the table.
Whole shrimp with harvest and post-harvest handling for head-on presentation.
Fully managed retail packs under the buyer's own brand, from bag design specification to master carton.
Counts per LB. We grade to the count and assortment set in your purchase order.
Facility
| IQF freezing | 15MT / day |
| Plate (block) freezing | 31MT / day |
| Automatic grading | 3MT / hour |
| Cold storage | 3,500MT |
Quality control
Certifications and approvals
Where we ship
Leadership
Founder, Executive Chairman and Managing Director
Mr. Murthy has spent more than two decades in Vannamei shrimp, from hatcheries and feed to processing and export. He began his career in Hindustan Lever's aquatic division, established India's first large scale Tilapia hatchery, and helped build the national market for Basa fillets.
In 2010 he founded Vijay Aqua Feeds, a 200,000 MT per year feed mill built on US technology. He is trained in aquaculture food safety under the US FDA and in feed management at Texas A&M University. He sets the company's strategy and leads the BKM Global Group across India, the UAE and Hong Kong.
Director
Mr. Varma is a young and energetic management graduate and part of the second generation in the company. He is actively involved in his family's own shrimp farms, which keeps him close to the pond side of our supply chain.
His family has a strong network with farmers and traders in agriculture and aquaculture, along with an established shrimp feed distribution network.
He holds a BBA from Alliance University, Bangalore, and a Masters in Strategic Marketing from the University of Greenwich, London.
We aspire to become the world's most dependable India based frozen shrimp partner, setting the benchmark for consistency, compliance and buyer confidence in every shipment.
Contact
We reply to buyer enquiries with specification, packing and shipment windows. Visits to the plant can be arranged.