West Karbi Anglong's ODOP hill ginger leaves the district as raw rhizome at trader prices. A women-led processing co-op making dried slices, powder and oil keeps the value-add local and reaches the spice and nutraceutical buyers that pay for graded, traceable hill ginger.
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Sharpen the vague craft-plus-forest mashup to its stronger, higher-volume thread: a producer cooperative processing the district's flagship hill ginger. It builds directly on the hill ginger belt (ODOP) atom and the Karbi hill farming & horticulture atom, and captures the "raw rhizome to dried, powder and oil" gap with washing, slicing, solar/mechanical drying, grinding and — at maturity — steam-distilled ginger oil. Karbi hill ginger's low-fibre, high-pungency reputation is a real provenance edge that graded, packed product can finally monetise instead of selling it loose to plains traders.
The honest constraints behind the payback: ginger is bulky, moisture-sensitive and price-volatile, so drying discipline and storage decide both grade and margin; the Sixth Schedule autonomous-council setting means land, sourcing and operating arrangements need community trust and correct permissions; remote-district logistics raise outbound freight. Food-grade output needs FSSAI compliance and consistent drying to hold colour and aroma. Buyers are spice brands and masala houses, Ayurvedic/nutraceutical and ginger-oil buyers, and institutional dry-ginger purchasers. Start with dried slices and powder for steady B2B cash; add oil distillation once volume and capital justify it.
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