Convert Datia's raw gur into branded organic jaggery blocks and free-flowing jaggery powder for health-food retail and the natural-sweetener D2C trade. The edge: the district makes raw gur but sells it unbranded at commodity prices.
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Datia, in the Bundelkhand belt of Madhya Pradesh, has a jaggery-and-sugarcane base plus a wheat-and-grain belt, and its raw gur today moves at undifferentiated commodity prices. This unit sharpens the existing card to its strongest single thread — agro-processing — and captures the jaggery-raw-gur-to-branded-organic-and-powder gap, dropping the thin heritage-tourism add-on. A clean processing unit makes hygienically-produced jaggery blocks, cubes, and free-flowing jaggery powder, positioned as an organic natural sweetener for the rising health-conscious market that is substituting away from refined sugar. Buyers are health-food retailers, modern-trade chains, and natural-sweetener D2C brands. It builds on the district's jaggery-and-sugarcane atom and surrounding cane supply. What it takes: clean-room hygiene and FSSAI compliance (traditional open-pan gur often fails modern hygiene tests), moisture and granulation control for shelf-stable powder, organic certification if claiming the premium, and distribution to reach urban health-food shelves. The honest risk is the gap between rustic gur-making and the hygiene standard branded retail demands. Start with branded blocks and powder for regional health-food retail, then pursue organic certification and wider distribution.
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Raw 85% · Processed 15%
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