- Cold chain infrastructure is crucial for perishable goods.
- It provides integrated cold chain and preservation facilities.
- Ensures no break from farm gate to consumer.
- Covers pre-cooling, weighing, sorting, grading, waxing at farm level.
- Includes multi-product/multi-temperature cold storage, CA storage, packing.
- Also IQF, blast freezing in distribution hub, reefer vans, mobile cooling units.
- This helps maintain quality of horticulture, organic produce, marine, dairy, meat, poultry.
- Reduces spoilage and post-harvest losses.