A mushroom drying and value-added packing unit in Samba's cultivation cluster — dried, canned and ready-to-cook mushroom packs for North-India retail and HoReCa buyers who need year-round supply beyond the short fresh window.
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This replaces the forced Basohli-craft-plus-cuisine mashup with the district's actual, scalable food asset. Samba runs a real mushroom cultivation cluster alongside its basmati and litchi belt, but fresh mushrooms spoil fast and crash in price at peak. The unit attacks the mushroom raw-fresh-to-dried-canned-and-value-added gap: solar/cabinet drying, canning and ready-to-cook seasoned packs that convert a perishable glut into shelf-stable, branded product the district can ship year-round.
Buyers are North-Indian grocery retail, hotel and restaurant (HoReCa) supply chains, and online specialty-food sellers who want consistent dried button and oyster mushrooms off-season. What it takes: FSSAI-grade drying and canning hygiene, moisture and microbial QC, cold-chain for the fresh intake, and procurement aggregation across many small growers. Honest risk: drying yields and food-safety consistency are unforgiving, and grower coordination is the operational hard part. The district's SIDCO industrial estate offers ready shed space. PMFME and NHDP fit the processing build.
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