date:Mar 26, 2019
In next 4-5 years Rs 2.1 billion (26.9 million) will be invested in setting up or upgrading cold storages to address the problem of stockpiling of perishable commodities. There has been an urgent need to upgrade existing cold storage plant and machinery, and technology. An under-developed food processing value chain is another issue that needs to be resolved.
Currently 68 per cent of the existing cold storage capacity is used for storing potato and yet farmers are not getting the right price. T