Understanding the Value Chain of Cold Chain Industry:

Industry is dominated majorly by unorganized player, which leaves plenty of space for organized sector to grow at double digit rate in next 4-5 year

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Operational Value Chain

1) Post harvesting, the harvested crops are store in cold storage.
2). These are further processed which includes washing, sorting, grinding and pre-cooling. These services are done in Processing Center.

3). Additional services like Ripening, Chilling and Freezing are also delivered to these processed crops.
4). These processed crops are then again moved to cold storage where they are stored in cooling centers.

This whole value chain requires Cold Chain Logistics Solution.

Value Chain of the Industry:

Cold Storage are used for multiple purpose:
1. Bulk Cold Storage: Long duration storage.
2. Multipurpose Cold storage: Short Term handling of products.
3. Small cold Storage: Pre-Cooling facilities mainly for export oriented items.

4. Frozen Food stored: Freezing facility for Fish, Meat & Dairy Product.
5. Controlled Atmosphere Stores: Technology that can alter the atmospheric gaseous content.
6. Mobile Storage: Mini Small cold storage Centre for storing basic amenities.

Transportation / Distribution:
1. Reefer Trucks: Empowered by integrated diesel driven motor, acting as cold rooms on wheels.
2. Reefer Container: Multi-modal containers with integrated refrigeration equipment. It has a temperature controlled range from -25 to +20°C.

3. Reefer Vessels: Reefer Vessels can carry any frozen or cooled cargo including fruits, vegetables, meat and fish from the range of -30 to +12°C.

Though there is plenty of space available for growth, the cold storage industry is highly capital intensive which makes the business operationally difficult.
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