Nagpur Orange GI juice & concentrate unit

This is a Nagpur Orange processing unit. It builds directly on the district's Nagpur Orange belt (GI) — a genuinely premium, geographically protected fruit — and, instead of selling the fruit raw, turns it into cold-pressed juice, frozen concentrate, dried segments and orange candy, all carrying the GI origin that sets them apart from generic orange products. The MIHAN SEZ & logistics hub gives cold-storage and outbound freight that most fruit-belt processors lack, helping reach distant beverage buyers before spoilage.

The hard parts: oranges are intensely seasonal, so the unit must run concentrate and freezing to extend the window, and idle capacity in the off-season is a structural cost; perishability demands a reliable cold chain and fast throughput at peak, and food-grade output needs FSSAI compliance plus consistent quality for beverage buyers. Price crashes at harvest are the buying opportunity but also a procurement-discipline test. Buyers are juice and beverage brands, concentrate buyers, confectionery makers, and D2C/gifting for premium GI juice. Start with concentrate and juice to absorb the glut; add candy and dried segments as higher-margin lines once throughput is proven.