Mango & tropical-fruit leather snack unit

The existing card hedged between tobacco and fruit leather; the stronger single thread is fruit. Prakasam's farmers, under mounting regulatory and tax pressure on Virginia tobacco, are diversifying into mango, papaya, and banana, and the district's Tobacco-and-Ongole-cattle agrarian base is exactly the land and labour now rotating toward horticulture. A small unit producing fruit leather, dried-fruit chips, and natural fruit-snack SKUs absorbs those new volumes into a shelf-stable, additive-free range.

Buyers are health-snack D2C shoppers, premium grocery, and gifting channels that want clean-label Indian fruit snacks. The honest constraints: fruit-leather process control is fiddly — consistent moisture, texture, and colour without preservatives takes real dehydration discipline — FSSAI compliance is mandatory, and the brand fights established players, so distribution and packaging differentiation carry the business. Start with single-origin mango leather, the proven market, and contract the tobacco-belt farmers turning to mango for supply; extend to multi-fruit and chips in year two once the dehydration line is dialled in.