1. Agriculture & Horticulture Commissioner
Kharif Campaign Group No. 8 on Reducing Post Harvest Losses and Augmenting the Production Towards Cold Chain
Presented by:
Dr . S. K. Malhotra
Agriculture & Horticulture Commissioner

2. Type of Infrastructure
Source: CIPHET (2015)
Post Harvest Losses
Commodities
Losses (%)
Fruits
6.70 to 15.88
Vegetables
4.58 to 12.44
Type of Infrastructure
Total Requirement (A)
All India Existing (B)
All India Gap
(A-B)
Modern Pack-house
70080 units
249 units
69831 units
Cold Storage (Bulk) MT MT MT
Cold Storage (Hub) MT
Reefer Transport
61826 units
9000 units
52826 units
Ripening Chamber
9131 units
812 units
8319 units
Source: NCCD-NABCONS

3. Reasons for Losses specific to Perishables
Cold chain in India presently available for milk, meat and (pharmaceuticals).
Existing surface cold storage capacity is inadequate (only 11% of production).
Surface cold storage is largely dedicated to potato (75.4% of available cold stores).
Low availability of multi-commodity cold stores (23.1% of cold stores).
Non-availability of refrigerated transport from point of harvest to point of sale.
The gap is large in case of pre-cooling, pack-houses, transport connectivity and ripening chambers.

4. Way Forward
Addition of 7.5 MMT of storage/cold chain capacity in next 5 years ; additional funds needed
SHMs are directed to allocate at least 25% of total annual funds for PHM
Mega cold chain projects near ports, LNG terminals, and other bulk cargo points in PPP mode under viability gap funding (VGF).
FPOs, FIGs, SHGs, etc falling under the catchment zone of Mega Food Parks and cold chain projects be made aware of - encouraged to use these facilities.
Promotion of alternate sources of energy like solar thermal
Higher synergy with MOFPI and other related agencies
More number of trainings and exposure are required to promote the PHM
Needs research on Irradiation technology with CA Cold storages for Onion.
Mushroom storage protocol required to be developed
Development Packing standards

5. Cold Chain Model PCC PCC PCC Pre Cooling Centre
Farmers Group
Self Help Group
Individual
Field Collection Centres
PPP Mode
PCC
PCC
PCC
Pre Cooling Centre
Refrigerated Transport
FRESH PRODUCTS
Export
PROCESSING AND VALUE ADDITION
COLD STORAGE
Export
Domestic Retail
Domestic Retail

6. Use both Routes to markets
Farm
Collection Sorting Packing Centre
Normal Supply Chain
HUB or Regional Mandi
Local Processing Plants
Cold Chain
Distant Process Plants
Perishable Export Centres
Distant Domestic Markets
by Capt. Pawanexh Kohli

7. 2081 storage structures created
(Maharshtra, Rajashthan, Karnataka, MP = 80%)

8. Thanks