Crush and process Junagadh's groundnut into branded filtered oil and roasted peanut snacks for Gujarat modern trade and D2C buyers, capturing the value that today leaves the district as raw nuts and bulk oil.
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Junagadh sits in Saurashtra's groundnut heartland and already has groundnut-oil and peanut-product activity, yet much of the crop leaves as raw nuts or unbranded bulk oil, ceding the branding and snack margin. This is a small crushing-and-snacking unit — expeller-pressed filtered groundnut oil plus roasted, flavoured and vacuum-packed peanut snacks — building on the district's groundnut and Kesar mango belt atom and groundnut-oil and peanut-products atom, and closing the raw-nuts-to-branded-oil-and-snacks gap. The defensible wedge is brand and provenance: a clean, single-origin Saurashtra groundnut oil and consistent snack line command a premium over commodity. The honest constraints are aflatoxin control (a serious, tested-for risk in groundnut), oil filtration and FSSAI edible-oil compliance, free-fatty-acid and rancidity management for shelf life, and earning modern-trade and D2C shelf space against established oil brands. Working capital concentrates at the harvest buying season. Start as a filtered-oil and bulk-kernel supplier to run the crush and learn grading, then layer branded retail oil and snack SKUs once aflatoxin and quality systems are proven — keep the build on groundnut rather than diluting into safari tourism.
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