date:Jun 15, 2016
te Government has sanctioned 21 cold store projects (82,220 tonnes capacity), they are waiting for loans to be sanctioned by banks. The Department has requested the Government to take up the issue with the banks.
Presently, the State has 33 functional cold stores. Twelve districts do not have cold stores.
As the State targeted to produce 1.125 million tonnes of potato and about 142,000 tonnes of seed potato under the Mission, it needs to increase its cold store capacity to 705,000 tonnes by 20