Harsimrat launches National Cold Chain Summit

Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Monday inaugurated the National Cold Chain Summit organized by Indian Chamber of Commerce, on Monday at Gangtok. Badal said, "The Government was committed to <g data-gr-id="17">address</g> the challenges of insufficient infrastructure leading to huge wastage, undue advantage to middlemen at the cost of farmers remuneration and to develop an efficient cold chain infrastructure to link the farmer to the consumer seamlessly. India is one of the largest producer of milk, fruits and vegetables, marine products, meat and poultry and that there is an urgent need to create adequate cold chain capacity in the country for preventing wastage."

She informed that the scheme for Cold chain, Value Addition and Preservation Infrastructure provides financial assistance up to Rs 10 <g data-gr-id="12">cr</g> for entrepreneurs. A total of 138 integrated cold chain projects were approved by the Government, which includes 30 new cold chain projects sanctioned recently for implementation and would attract an investment of Rs. 470 crores and 108 projects are under the <g data-gr-id="13">implementation .</g>