Explanation:

The Agricultural Promotion & Investment Corporation of Odisha Limited or APICOL is a Government of Odisha Public Sector Undertaking incorporated on 1 March 1996 with the intention of bringing enterprise into agriculture as envisaged in State Agriculture Policy 1996. It started functioning since 1 June 1996 with the sole objective of promoting agro-based industries/food processing industries including commercial agriculture/horticulture/animal husbandry/fisheries, in broad terms to promote investment in agriculture and allied sector.