A makhana processing-and-branding unit in Darbhanga that pops, roasts and flavours fox-nuts into shelf-ready healthy-snack SKUs for urban retail and e-commerce, capturing margin that today leaves as raw grade.
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The business pops, roasts and flavours raw fox-nut into branded, shelf-ready makhana snack packs for the fast-growing healthy-snacking market. Darbhanga is the makhana heartland, yet most output leaves the district as raw or semi-processed grade; this unit captures the high-margin popping-flavouring-branding step. It sharpens the original painting-plus-makhana mashup onto the stronger, scalable food thread. It builds on the district's makhana-heartland atom and directly targets the raw-fox-nut-to-popped-flavoured-branded-snack gap, with potential to license Madhubani-art packaging as a distinctive brand asset (a nod to the heritage without splitting the operation). The real constraints are sourcing consistent-grade raw nut against intense buyer competition, getting flavour and crisp texture reproducible at scale, and FSSAI-compliant packaging with the shelf life that modern trade and e-commerce demand. Buyers are urban health-snack consumers, e-commerce and quick-commerce platforms, modern-trade chains, and gifting/export channels for premium flavoured assortments.
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