A pineapple value-add unit in Dhalai's Queen Pineapple (GI) belt making juice, dried slices and GI jam during harvest — capturing margin that is currently lost when premium fruit gluts the market and rots unsold.
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Build a fruit-processing unit that turns Dhalai's GI-tagged Queen Pineapple into juice, dried slices, and jam during the Mar-Jul glut, when fresh fruit floods the market and prices collapse. This stands squarely on the district's Queen Pineapple belt (GI) and its rubber-and-fruit-processing potential, and targets the fresh-fruit-to-juice-and-jam gap that leaves growers exposed to a short, oversupplied window. Processing extends shelf life and shifts value from a perishable commodity to a branded NE-origin product.
The constraints are honest: a sharply seasonal raw-material window means the line sits idle much of the year unless you add a second fruit, and Tripura's remoteness makes cold-chain and outbound logistics to mainland buyers a real cost. FSSAI compliance, consistent Brix/quality control, and a reliable grower-aggregation model are essential. Buyers are NE and metro health-food retailers, online dried-fruit shoppers, and institutional juice/jam purchasers. Keep the focus on pineapple value-add and run it through two harvests before any diversification.
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