A review: Present scenario of cold chain storage facilities in India

The cold storage facilities have been one of the most emerging sectors in India. According to the report on United Nations Development Program, almost 40% of India’s total production is lost in transit which is either wasted by consumers or damaged. The cold storage industry in India is still at a beginning stage despite large production of perishable food produce. However \increasing urbanization and growth of organized retail, food servicing and food processing sector are enhance the growth of cold storage chain industry in India. Also, the Government of India has taken several policy level and schematic steps to increase investment in this sector. This report gives an overview of the cold storage facilities in India including present storage capacity, trends, and Government initiatives like start up, growth enablers, challenges and key success of this industry. This paper mainly focused to create awareness among the investors to make more start ups in the cold storage facilities sector in India.