A modern ginning-and-pressing unit that turns local kapas into clean ginned lint plus cold-pressed cottonseed oil and cake, selling lint to Ahmedabad-Rajkot spinners and oil to regional brands instead of moving raw kapas through traders.
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Drop the unfocused cotton-plus-dairy mashup and commit to the district's real cluster strength: cotton processing. Botad sits in Saurashtra's cotton heartland and already hosts a ginning ecosystem, but much of the crop still moves as raw kapas through commission agents, leaving the integrated lint-plus-oil margin on the table. This unit builds on the Cotton ginning and oil cluster and Groundnut and cotton belt atoms and captures the raw kapas → ginned lint, oil & yarn gap, running a ginning line plus a cottonseed expeller to produce graded lint, cold-pressed cottonseed oil, and oil-cake for the dairy-feed market. The honest constraints, consistent with the moderate capex and payback, are working-capital intensity (cotton ties up cash fast in season), lint contamination control to hit spinner specs, and power and dust-management compliance. NABARD-AIF support helps fund the equipment. Buyers: Ahmedabad and Rajkot spinning mills for lint, regional edible-oil packers for oil, and local dairies for cake. Groundnut from the same belt offers an off-season pressing line on the shared expeller once cotton is running.
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