Fishery

Fishery:

Length of the sea-coast in this district is 105 k.m. fishery is developed along the entire coastal area. Fishermen are there in the 60 villages of 9 mandals. In addition, fish ponds are also developed in the agricultural lands. There are five ice plants to store the fish. Each one of these plants has a storage capacity of 60 tones per day.

Rivers canals projects

Gundlakamma, moosi and paleru are the 3 rivers that flow in this district. Gunlakamma river is of 280 k.m. long in the district. Born at gundla brahmeswaram in nallamala forests this river merges with kambham lake in the first stage. From this place it flows through markapuram, addanki, maddipadu mandals and joins the sea at ulichi village. Action is being taken to use this water for cultivation of dry agriculture lands.kambham lake is one of the largest lakes in the state. This lake gets water from river gundlakamma and through this lake 4880 hectares of land gets cultivated.

Canals:

Kammamuru canal, Tippayipalem project, Rallapdu, Mopadu and kanigiri reservoirs, Buckingham canal.

Industries:

Markapuram slates, Tobacco, Granite and hand loom are the main sources of industrialization of this district.

Galaxy granite:

Galaxy granite deposits are available in cheemakurthy mandal. This granite got international recognization and is very rarely available in the world. 

This granite is exported form cheemakurthy mandal to countries like japan, Italy, France, Arab, China, and Taiwan. This galaxy granite stone costs about rs 50,000 per cubic meter. Nowadays this granite is widely used in constructions of buildings, stupas, graves and also in interior decorative pieces. At present, visiting cards have also been created by slicing granite stones with the help of laser beams.

In cheemakurthy mandal, galaxy granite deposits are present in thousand acres of land. These lands are expanded from cheemakurthy, Rajupalem Lakshmipuram, and up to the villages of boodavada and yerrakonda.  This area is embellished with quarrying of 42 companies (2005).

Deposits of black granite are present in kanigiri area of the district. Colour granite deposits are present in kuchipudi of marripudi mandal and blue pearl granite deposits are present at nimmanvaram near podili. There are granite deposits at pasupugallu of mundlamur mandal which look like galaxy granite. But, this granite was not well known due to the lack of quality. Famous industries in this field are pallava granite's, Enterprising enterprises (Tamilnadu Organisation who named Galaxy Granite).

Ralpuram (Rajupalem lakshmipuram):

where granite mines are mostly present has become wealthy due to these mines and made is name significant. Once upon a time this was a brahmin agraharam and the value of one acre of land was not more than rs 30. Today the value of these lands is reminding the value of gold. Affiliated to these granite industries, many factories  (25) were established, providing employment to more than 20 thousand people. Indirectly thousands of people are getting benefited from these factories. In the beginning of the year 2005, these Galaxy companies received orders from china and Italy, sufficient to the year 2007. Famous industries in this field are surya granite's, southern rock minerals, Vasavi granite's, Nutrient granite's etc.