A ginger drying, powder, and oil-extraction unit in Sirmaur's ginger belt, selling export-grade dried ginger and curcumin-retaining powder to spice and nutraceutical buyers.
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Sirmaur is a substantial ginger (and tomato, garlic) belt in lower Himachal, but most rhizome leaves fresh and undervalued, vulnerable to gluts and price crashes. The original card bolted on a craft distillery whose HP liquor licensing drags risk and payback; the cleaner, faster single thread is the ginger value-add. This is a drying, powdering, and oil/oleoresin-extraction unit — washing, slicing, controlled drying, a mill, and basic extraction — converting raw ginger into shelf-stable dried, powder, oil, and paste lines. It builds directly on the district's ginger-tomato-garlic belt and the Paonta Sahib industrial belt for utilities and logistics, and it captures the raw-rhizome-to-dried-powder-oil-paste gap. Honest constraints: drying without losing pungency and curcumin/gingerol is technical, microbial and aflatoxin control plus FSSAI (and export grades) gate the better buyers, and ginger prices swing hard year to year. Buyers are spice wholesalers, masala and nutraceutical contract buyers, and HoReCa paste customers. Start with graded dried and powder; add oil extraction as QC and demand firm up.
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