Indian Government invests in Cold Chain, Value Added Processing

For a limited time, the government of India offers significant financial support for investments in the cold chain - including processing, through its plan entitled: 'Scheme of Cold Chain, Value Addition and Preservation Infrastructure'.

The objective of the Scheme of Cold Chain, Value Addition and Preservation Infrastructure is to provide integrated cold chain and preservation infrastructure facilities, without any break, from the farm gate to the consumer.

It covers the creation of infrastructure facilities along the entire supply chain viz. pre-cooling, weighing, sorting, grading, waxing facilities at farm level, multi-product/multi-temperature cold storage, CA storage, packing facility, IQF, blast freezing in the distribution hub and reefer vans, mobile cooling units for facilitating distribution of horticulture, organic produce, marine, dairy, meat and poultry etc.

The scheme allows flexibility in project planning with special emphasis on the creation of cold chain infrastructure at the farm level.

The integrated cold chain project is set up by Partnership / Proprietorship Firms, Companies, Corporations, Cooperatives, Self Help Groups (SHGs), Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), NGOs, Central / State PSUs, etc. subject to fulfilment of eligibility conditions of scheme guidelines.
 

Currently, a “scheme for integrated cold chain and value addition infrastructure” by Government of India is published where the interested investor may get a grant/subsidy of 35% to 50% of the project cost based on predefined cost norms by government.

Natural Storage Solutions Pvt Ltd, is a leading turnkey solutions provider company from India which assists companies in setting up cold chain projects and avail the subsidies and grants given by governments.