An aseptic Alphonso pulp and puree unit that extends the GI Hapus into a year-round branded product, selling to premium beverage, dessert and export buyers rather than dumping perishable fruit into a six-week glut.
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Ratnagiri grows the GI-protected Alphonso (Hapus), which commands premium pricing but rots fast and crashes the local price every six-week harvest. This unit buys fruit from the district's Alphonso mango (GI) heartland and, rather than letting it go to market raw, runs an aseptic pulp-and-puree line that locks it into a year-round, shelf-stable product under a GI-backed brand. The hard parts: the brutally short harvest window that forces near-continuous shift work for weeks, strict cold-chain and ripening control to protect flavour, aseptic-packaging discipline and FSSAI compliance, and brand-building against several established Alphonso pulp names. Margin comes from traceable single-origin GI sourcing and consistent Brix and colour specs. Buyers: premium beverage and dessert makers, hotel and QSR supply, diaspora-facing exporters, and D2C gifting. Cashew kernels — the district's other strength — can be a complementary off-season line once the pulp business is steady.
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