Cold Storagesand Cold Chain are essential for extending the shelf life, period of marketing,avoiding glut, post-harvest losses reducing transport bottlenecks during peakperiod of production and maintenance of quality of produce. It is, therefore, necessary that coldstorages are to be constructed in major producing as well as consumingcentres. The development of coldstorages in the country has an important role in reducing the wastages of theperishable commodities and providing remunerative prices to the growers and tomake available farm products to the consumers at competitive and affordableprices.
The developmentof cold chain industry has an important role to play in reducing the wastagesof the perishable commodities and thus providing remunerative prices to thegrowers. Also, it acts like a backbone for pharma industry and helps tomaintain the efficacy of the drug throughout the supply chain by providingtemperature controlled environment to sensitive pharma products.
