On October 29 (Friday) 1999, a super cyclonic storm hit the coastal districts of Orissa like Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Bhadrak, some parts of Puri and Khurda and adjacent areas along the Bay of Bengal with a velocity of more than 300 kmph.
Providing vocational and professional education is shared by a number of departments. The Industries Department controls industrial and technical training. The University of Agriculture and Technology is in charge of Agricultural Engineering and Veterinary Services.
Orissa is an agricultural state. Most of the festivals in this state are linked with agriculture. Akshaya Trutiya, Raja Sankranti and Manabasha Gurubar are celebrated for more and more harvest.
The prawns have become an important source of earning foreign currency because of their export to various countries. They are exported in the form of frozen prawn, canned prawn, dried prawn, prawn pickles, prawn powder, prawn bits, prawn curry, prawn meal and prawn pulp.
Among the marine prawns the following arte common. 1. Penaeus indicus 2. P. monodon 3. M. dobsoni 4. M. monoceros 5. Parapenaeopsis sculptilis
Infrastructure always play a very vital role in the development of the entrepreneurship. A small business with a better infrastructural support can reach to the top giving the best return to the entrepreneur.
The "Agricultural Promotion and Investment Corporation of Orissa Limited (APICOL)" was set up by the Government of Orissa in the year 1996. The objective behind the formation of "APICOL" is to increase investments in agriculture and shifting the traditional orthodox type of agriculture into commercial and competence type of agriculture.