Deogarh orange and litchi pulp unit

Set up a compact fruit-processing line — washing, pulping, pasteurising, juice and squash filling, plus cold storage for frozen pulp. The thesis is absorption: when the district's orange and litchi harvests peak together, prices collapse because everything must sell fresh within days. A processor that buys the surplus and turns it into squash, juice concentrate and frozen pulp breaks that seasonal price crash and captures the raw-to-processed margin.

Why here: this builds on Deogarh's named fruit belt of watermelon, orange and litchi, and directly targets the orange and litchi processing gaps — both are listed value-chain openings. Buyers are regional beverage and squash brands, institutional canteens, and modern-trade private labels that want low-cost fruit base. Honest constraints: litchi has a brutally short, narrow window so the line sits idle much of the year unless you sequence crops; pasteurisation and pulp hygiene must clear FSSAI consistently or the whole batch is lost; and shipping from a forested, interior Odisha district adds freight and cold-chain cost. Start with frozen pulp and squash B2B — predictable, fewer SKUs — before any consumer-facing juice line.