Indore's namkeen makers use potato flakes and powder in aloo bhujia and aloo sev, while potato, the district's One District One Product crop, is often sold raw at glut prices. A drying unit turns surplus potato into a year-round ingredient for snack makers.
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This factory washes, peels, cooks and mashes potatoes, then dries the mash on heated drums into thin flakes, which can be milled into powder. Flakes and powder keep for months in sealed bags and are a key ingredient in aloo bhujia, aloo sev, ready mixes and instant foods.
Potato is Indore's One District One Product crop, yet most of it is sold as raw tubers. Harvest gluts pull down farm prices. NABARD's 2023-24 credit plan for Indore says the district makes about one-third of India's namkeen, so large buyers of potato powder are right here. The plan also lists weak food-processing capacity as a district gap.
You need an FSSAI licence, a factory licence, pollution board consent for the starchy wash water, a steam boiler, drum dryers and a packing line, plus a bank term loan and a solid share of your own money. The hard part is raw material. Flakes need potatoes with high dry matter and low sugar. Many mandi varieties are not ideal, and potatoes kept long in cold storage turn sweeter and go brown when dried, so you may need to contract farmers to grow the right varieties. Fuel costs are high and buyers test every lot.
Sell to namkeen and snack factories in Indore first, then to food makers across India through traders.
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