<p style='text-align:justify;'>1. Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS
  Special Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Co Operation
  Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>2. Shri. Chiranjiv Choudhary, IFS
  Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'> 3. Dr. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD,
  Department of Agriculture, Co Operation & Farmers Welfare.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'> 4. Shri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, Chief General Manger,
  NABARD Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>5. Shri. Gubba Kiran, CEO
  Gubba Cold Storage</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>6. Dr. B Madhusudana Rao, M.V.Sc., Ph.D.
  Principal Scientist, ICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Technology
  Visakhapatanam, AP.</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>7. Dr. Giridhar Kirshana, M.Sc (Ag), Ph.D.
  Registrar, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur, AP</p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>By Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS, Spl. Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and
  Co Operation, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'>Thank you for having this very Important Webinar, as we all know that India is the 2nd world largest
group in fruits and vegetables but we have a substance in Meat and Poultry in the recent research
report in the cold chain Industry in this sector 13 to 15% growing CAGI and set to reach 47, 000
Crore by 2022. But it is not only the food product and also Bio Medical and Manufacturing which is
another key driver for the growth of Cold Controller of Supply Chain and also the trend that are
actually driving growth of Supply Chain in India as well are may be consumer behavior and more
consumers are moving towards and that is getting preserved and this is getting promoted in
Consumers and changing by the modern trade Super Markets. Which organize the food retail
demand Chain. Similarly the farmers are also now moving towards cultivation of fruits and
vegetables which give them better deals and remunerative values. So moving to Agriculture and
allied sectors, in these types of behavior consumer work and Farmer is also driving the
requirements of cold stores closer to the to the farms and farmers and in India predominant
Industry being Agriculture and farming the need on developing the supply Chain with focus on
Temperature control and is highly disorganized interior base and completing with infrastructure and
cold chain transport is equally important. We are aware that the Indian&apos;s present cold chain
positioning as a very high share of single commodity cold storages particularly in Agriculture Sector.
There are also challenges in cold storage transport facilities and there is challenge in high initial
investment paneling is covered with inadequate enabling Infrastructure like Road, Water Power
Supply as well as drainages near to the farms and in the interior where actually the fruit and
vegetable production is happening. In addition to this, there is also lack of awareness about
handling temperature sensitive goods and the challenge to an immediate need and an urgent need
for not only having network of modern multi chamber cold storage and cold transportation
infrastructure and also having safety with global standard of quality enhancing efficiency and
Investment and also need to create a reformed and trained work force to handle this. It is very
important and very sensitive Industry move forward and we also assist it&apos;s impact on environment
so that the climate foot prints of these activities remain well and within in the margin that would
enable the long term sustainability. About Andhra Pradesh we are is 1 of the India&apos;s Largest
consumer foods and third largest producer of agriculture according to the Top Market report and</p> 
<p style='text-align:justify;'>cold chain International Trade Administration. Around 25 to 30% what we produce ways to
adequate cold chain infrastructure and 1% part of the losses in the current storage as well as in
transit. It is not only the fruits and vegetables we have a digital production of around 50 to 50.25
metric tons ranking 5th in India and also a study growth in Fish and Meat Industry in state of AP. We
also have 404 storage facilities that include fish and poultry efficient altering with installed capacity
of 22.41 lakh Metric Tons and these are mostly used for storing Chilies and tamarind and also have
fisheries storage pf 44 thousand metric tons per day and 5250 insulated vehicles on transport
sector with 650 refrigerator vehicles. There is need to step up this and the existing sources of
funding for cold storage infrastructure and from 2011/12 has given infrastructure status and
subsidy is also there on cold storage budget cost and the key challenge is to bridge the gap in cold
storage ware housing capacity and only 25% of storage facility is available for food, vegetables,
processed food and pharmaceuticals and 75% capacity is dedicated to 1or 2 crops in Chilies and
Tamarinds. AP Govt. has taken measures on the gaps to address by CM, and have Raith Baravasa
Kendra in every Village with 10732 Kendra in the state of AP which are handled by Agri &
Horticulture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry graduates and this kind of man power we have is not
there in any other state. Now the govt. is producing large number of FPO&apos;S and will become very
important component in handling this and this work force are well trained. The Raitha Baravasa
Kendra have major 3 pillars like knowledge capacity building 2nd is all farmers are connected to the
internet so can reach them through various modules with TV connectivity and iPad which is given to
all the workers and next step is to train the farmers and how to produce the crops on the first level
handling of the crops which is called primary processing and also coming with multipurpose facility
centers which will have collection centers and also wet storage go downs and 400 places to start
with and cold storage go downs will be established at the Farm gate so at the large extent will fill
need of filling gaps of taking the cold storage to the Farm gate in agriculture is very crucial and
similarly in Fisheries. Addition to this secondary processing centers are coming at 25 location in the
state of AP. And also coming up with 175 Aqua Hubs with cold storage facility with a refrigerated
transport system which will carry from farms to Aqua hubs to Aqua Hub retails and so the entire
back end forth will be covered from farmers to the producers and all this are taken from Agri Infra
Fund and Large number of this Projects are funded by NABARD. Similarly bulk milk cooling units will
also come along with automatic mill collection Units al this are estimated with 3678 crores. And this
will give good network for the 9000 add villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Food processing
policy has recently released by AP govt. where the govt. itself investing in Infrastructure
development at 25 location on plug and play model where investors can come to AP and start
processing plants. In addition to this 170 crore program is there and a market called Janatha Bazar
and this market has also have cold storage facilities as well as link to secondary process centers
where all processing foods can come and also from aqua center to this Markets. AT 10,000 crores
investment are coming 10, 600 locations and entire supply chain has large extent both in
vegetables and fruits and also in Food Grains and also in Fisheries and Aqua from the govt. side</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>And all are worked closely with NABARD and other banker friends. And the universities are playing
very important role in this as back bone when the technologies are concerned and also happy to
inform program will start by March 21 and will be able to complete in 24 months&apos; time and this
point of time these are the things are happening from AP Govt. Thank you.</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, CGM, NABARD, Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh</b></p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>We congrats ASSOCHAM for organizing this webinar on cold chain Industry, as a challenging subject
and really thank you and making NABARD as its partner I his particular webinar. In the recent
economy service table department has highlighted the India&apos;s Agriculture sector has shown the
resilience and growth rate of 3 to 3.5% and this was the only industry was growing at the pandemic
and especially food processing sector has done very well. One side India is producing lot foods and
other side lots of food is wasted, so in this area we have the cold storage has a big role where as in
the past the challenges simply supply addictive food and in the future the challenge will be to
provide optimal nutrients genetic profile and that&apos;s the challenges will take place. So we need to
take this challenge and work in this process. The operation links in 2015-16 stood at 146.45 Million
of which 85% are small and marginal farmer and operational size of 1% has reduces to .08 Hector.
There are good number of people and again the cold storage place a big role here because the
wastage can be stopped here and farmers can get the better price for their produce. The
Agriculture enterprise during covid -19 has recommended that the use of the crises as an impetus to
the crises to strengthen the institutional capacity of association to enhance the little more to
income to small farmers. The GOI schemes like PM Schemes has good number of subsidies project
and they have taken up in large scale to name the few Mega food park, Integrated cold chain,
Infrastructure for cluster development for backward linkages, creation for expansion of food
processing and preservation capacities and operation Greens. So many schemes has been floated
here even though it is launched 6 years ago the takeoff id not to that extent. One more change is
the essential commodities amendment act 2020, which remove a commodity like a serial sponsor
from the essential commodities and these are the very big step taken by the govt. legislation will
help to drive up in more investment in storage and modernization of the full supply. Now coming to
the cold chain industry there&apos;s the way the farmer produced then it is stored and transported and
then it is marketed. We find some issues in this regard produce there is absolutely no problem
where we can say we are producing surplus to export. After produce we need to store and has
become a problem. To overcome this required to take up just to not to encourage farmers to to
produce 1 type of crop so that they can crop another type. It can be eliminated to price and it will
be good for all. There are few challenges in this particular industry. Here you required large amount
of finance, the cost of goods storage is very high it cannot be in a small scale and another thing is
the main cold storage keeping in the view the climate the Energy business that is very high and that
is the biggest challenge for crop selection for a particular area for particular format. It is policy</p> 
<p style='text-align:justify;'>should be taken by the state and Central. So that every farmer they produce as per the plan of the
govt. so that there won&apos;t be any problem and also not excess. Here it is observed who are managing
the cold storage they do not have proper knowledge at even normal standards and also the hygiene
has not done which we need to look for. The challenges here is capacity building Institution which
can forward and look into the different challenges here. Training on operation and skilling is
required and NABARD will give necessary support for such trainings and for giving capacity
building. In India we are having maximum of single crop or single commodity cold storages when
the govt. earlier have floated subsidies and has given good number subsidies around 50laks and so.
All the entrepreneurs who take up the cold storage is they used construct the multi chamber that
was the big issue practically look into that multi chambers were used for single commodity so very
purpose of stating that we lost. We need to look into this. It won&apos;t be a revenue relative to the cold
storage owners though the rent they take which has been fixed as there is a rotation of 2 to 3
times. The economic will be better rather than keeping in single commodity for all after the 2,3
months it is vacated some cleaning operation are taken up and this is the big challenge here where
we need look for. The Instance moment of India there is a Geo Tagging for all Agri. Infrastructure
almost in completion stage. More than 1 lac Agri. Infrastructure are available in India as gathered
there are 4400 cold storages are available and AP have 240 Cold Storages and operational cost and
awake need look into alternative power like solar for the cold storages. According to NCCD Data we
have there is the tremendous gap we found in cold storages and we request to bankers to support
the reformer again and again so the produce can be saved and made more economical. Lastly 1st is
the different fund from NABARD Rural Infrastructure Development Fund and NABARD
Infrastructure Development Fund and these funds can be given to the Govt. and govt. owned
corporations so that they can take more structures can be set up in district or villages so farmers
will be benefited and Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund are conditional funds and also on
Fisheries and Aqua Development Funds as we have huge demand in AP as we are developing lot of
Fisheries hope govt. will use this particular fund. We also Have Food Processing Fund as this funds
are available at nominal rates and anyone interested in buying Infrastructure will be helpful. These
structure couldn&apos;t because of high cost. The GOI recently announced 3% intervention for the
borrower who take the Agri. Infrastructure activity for the next 3 to 4 Years. NABARD has 5000
crores for supporting the Agri. Infrastructure will be given to the primary Agri. Co Operative
Societies rather directly to the borrowers and under this window we are supporting AP govt. 1500
crore for this process. In the state of AP we have formed 300 Farmers produce organizations and
these are the different schemes from NABARD and Thank you.</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD</b></p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>Good Morning, the very interesting part was spoken by NABARD about finance, will touch up some
points of the issues, in this session we will talking on capacity building & Employment Generation
through Cold chain it is very important in the production aspect any crop on Horticulture or
Agriculture whatever it is we have to identify the gaps that is one thing to control this aspect these
the theory put forth by LIVID so we need to identify the gap and plug in that gap the knowledge the
skill that is required in cold storage very much lacking and this is one aspect we need to touch upon.
As said by the earlier panels which has come up almost 6 months back there was about 27 projects
and they are generating the employment of 16200 in Numbers and that is indirect and there will be
some direct employment and there are different stake holders are involved which benefit the
260,000 farmers. Touching upon on Horticulture crops produce in 2021 we are touching about
325.95 MT from 27.07MT as we all know India is the second largest producer of Fruits and
Vegetables and many of the groups some vegetables are Imported and some of them are importing
manually. We have a good cold storage facility to restore for distribution and AP state is the first to
export Banana to different Countries. So we need to go up in demand production in any crop. India
is authentic to most of the grain crops and we need to go for the geometric of the crop so covering
all this we can go for diversification of Fruits and Vegetables enabling the farmers will get the
better price and everything for doubling the farmers. So most of the problem is what we are facing
post-harvest losses as per the study by CIPHET, about 7 years back Harvest and post-Harvest losses
including during storage of Fruits and vegetables were in the range of 5 to 16% but practically in
the field it is much more to 25% loss are there as that is the visible loss and invisible loss from the
dining tables it is much more so we can reduce this may be with different intervention. The model
that we are producing about 30 t0 40% we can export to other markets. Most of this are perishable
mostly because of moisture and also with the field level production. Foods are which are likely to
spoil become unsafe to consumer if not kept them within specific environmental parameter. Fruits
and vegetables have high water content 70-90%which enables bacteria to multiply fast and also
higher sugar content in fruits. The cold chain as an over view, starting fro Harvest to the plate it has
to be continues and any of this 3 elements if it is lost in the chain we are going to lose the quality of
the producers and their by the marketability of the produce starting from harm less to segregate</p> 
<p style='text-align:justify;'>and these are the common operation usually we see. Cold chain in Horticulture is environment
controlled logistic chain, ensuring uninterrupted market link from farm to fork. Cold chain includes
near farm pack-Houses for pre-conditioning reefer vehicles, cold storages, ripening chamber. In
Horticulture strengthens the value chain systems enhancing the marketability of the perishable
produce and reducing food loss in the supply chain. So each crop has a specific requirement
temperature humidity and modify that and we can store them and try different. If we see sector
wise use of cold storage 95% are owned and operated by pvt sector 3% cooperative and remaining
2% are under PSUs. 75-80% cold storage are used for potatoes, 7% are used by Pharma&apos;s, 5% is
used for processed foods, 5% is used for Horticulture crops and available 3% is used for Marine and
Meat Products. There are gaps in Infrastructure of cod chain like Pack House, Reefer Vehicle, Cold
Storage (Bulk), Cold Storage ( Hub ) and Ripening Chamber and these are the challenges we need
to look for immediately to make more efficient even structure has required technology and
subcommittee has sourcing the use of alternate source of energy to make them viable. Ripening
require is very much required for Banana and Papaya and it drops a little bit. So for this different
efforts are made from GOI understanding the importance of Cold chain is extending the support in
creation of infrastructure by means of various agencies like Ministry of Food Processing Industries
(MOFPI), National Horticulture Board, APEDA, and NABARD. GOI recently announced 100% FDI in
the policy. It&apos;s important to note that cold chain sector and promotion of low cost technology in the
vision 2022 doubling the Farmers Income as it is the one of the bridging Element in mitigating the
losses at the field level and also at consumer level. One aspect deeper in this is the recently
announced aspect of investment that is required about a 90,000 crore that is required to fill up the
gaps. GOI has announced in the budget as 1 lakh will be provided by Banks and Financial
Institutions as loans to Primary Agriculture credit societies, Marketing Cooperative Societies, FPO&apos;s,
Agri Entrepreneurs and Startups with Interest subvention 3% per annum with limit of Rs. 2 crore
available for max 7 years, Credit Guarantee Fund, FPO Promotion Scheme, Moratorium for
repayment subject to min of 6 months to the max of 2 years and also have Agri Infra Fund under
sec 6, funding is available for Pack House, Sorting & Grading Fruits, Cold Chains, Logistic Facility,
Projects for Supply Chain, Projects promoted by Central/ State/ Local Govt. under PPP for Community Farming
assets or post-harvest management projects. Financial assistance for cold chain under MIDH. Potential for
Employment for direct and indirect opportunities are there. Total manpower is 30 lakh as an indicative figure but
there are so many stakeholders are there and Human capital in post-harvest in cold chain is currently the
domain of technology makers, No training for Finance bodies, The service trade, the largest disconnect exists in
ignoring the awareness and training gap, untrained application of the cold chain creates greater losses, lack of
domain skills or access to trained knowledge base a biggest issue. Capital in post-harvest care required focused
development of Technical cadre and Knowledge-cadre. NCCD has been conducting capacity building programs
like entrepreneurship development in ripening awareness workshop in cold chain schemes of MIDH. NCCD also
send for training to France with investment of INR 1crore.58Lakhs. At the conclusion to name the few cold chain
sector has tremendous employment generation potential and created employment opportunities at various level,
govt. has taken various steps to encourage the participants private and Nonprofit agencies in this sector, NGO&apos;s
and skill development agencies are playing significant role. The game changer here has a lot of technologies like
sensors Robots, Block Chain and Energy we need to bring for change the time without breaking the Link Thank
you.</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri Chiranjiv, Choudhary, IFS, Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh</b></p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>Good Morning, talking about some of the practical issues and experience we have seen and little initiative what we
taken in for this, the overall infrastructure availability in the state of AP, the data base in the last 5 years has a substantial
progress and there has been a lot of awareness amongst various stakeholders and there are positive indication that thy
demand has increased and we are trying to live up to the demand. There are initiative in tune with the latest trends in cold
chain industry like Modernization/ Retrofitting of existing Infrastructure. No of cold storage has been modernized with the
high speed engines and PUF Insulation. Use of sophisticated machinery and equipment. Setting up of multi commodity cold
storage rather than conventional single commodity storage. Modern Pack Houses with integrated facility. Ripening Facility.
Energy efficient and new storage technology. Development of integrated Cargo complexes to handle all kinds of good&apos;s ,
including perishables. Shift from unorganized to organized Market. Focus on development end to end cold chain and not just
storage. Recently in coordination with TATA Trust, we have gone ahead with the establishment of this and it is Biomass
technology. It is a complete integrated system where starching grading and collection center and it is a multipurpose and
getting installed and will be operational by end of this month. We are looking cost effective technology where it can reduce
the cost of the service providers and cost in the producers who use it. No of Grid connected Solar PV Panel Systems to
reduce the power consumption charges. Challenges what we seen is Insufficient market survey. High Initial capital cost with
increasing cost of land. Land availability at suitable Locations. Cumbersome procedure for accessing Bank Credit. Lack of
adequate and reliable power supply. Outdated technology and conventional single commodity storage. Lack of coordination
between monitoring quality and Food Safety Systems. Lack of Skilled Personnel. Lack of Reefer Transport. Looking all these
challenges we need to focus on technologies which are also cost effective. So the back end produce Fruits and Vegetables
where the ingredients are washing and packing everything we done are created by our own. Support of GOI, set of Officers
are authorized as issuing authority and locally the officers are able to identify. The Opportunities are Farm Level/ Village
level Small scales units with alternate energy Sources. Reduce Post-Harvest Losses and consequent higher returns. Utilization
of Railway Network. Creation/Strengthen of Cold Chain Infrastructure will not only encourage only Farmers but also promote
entrepreneurship among the youth. Creates direct and in direct Employment for Skilled and Un Skilled Youth and creates
better standard of Living. PPP Project. Promotion of R&D. Reduced CO2 emission leading to reduced carbo foot print and
cleaner Environment and these are the game changing thing. The Way Forward are Development of Common Infrastructure
for Multi Commodity Storage in order to give unrestricted access to small Farmers. Technology Development at low cost
technologies to be developed to address the problems of local Supply Chain and low cost small capacity Reefer Trucks to be
developed to connect. Projects are to be considered without Credit Linkage for self-Finances Projects may be considered.</p> 
<p style='text-align:justify;'>Even NBFC should be considered for the new projects. PPP should be promote to undertake the emerging new technologies.
Reduction of GST on Processed Foods and Vegetables from 5 to 0&. Strengthening the cold chain Infrastructure at all Airports
and Sea Ports. Gamma Irradiation facilities is very much required to promote Export of Fruits and Vegetables. Incentivizing
the front end Infrastructure for small players and these are the experience and key area if you really know the farmers to get
know proportionate returns to their hard work. Thank you we look forward the suggestion from all of you as you all know
the Horticulture is also of the Hub of AP with the largest producer of Fruits and with 60 to 70 % of Food production from AP
and we require Guidance, Support, Innovative Ideas from all of you. Thank you.</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. Gubba Kiran, CEO, Gubba Cold Storage, Hyderabad</b></p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>Thank you for the given opportunity to speak, the strategic perspective of a Cold Chain Industry opportunities &
Challenges.</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>We have established in 1987 with a 500 modest capacity in terms of volume we are growing up largest in the
country we in the last 20 years we have diversified ourselves from a normal regular cold storage to the state of
the facilities which is probably less than 5% of Indian Industry size. We have l15 probably less than 1% Indian
Cooling Industry is having such facilities supported Euro Pallet track Supported facility set up in 2008 for the
Industry. The cream, butter, Meats and the Fruits like Apple Orange are stored in these type of storage facility.
These are little high in Capital because the high value products absorb this checklists. Block Stocking Multi Level
Cold Storage - 2 Ton Jumbo Bag those are the block tracking each bag is 2 ton there are baffles and non-baffles
inside the cold storage so we can create and give it back to client supply chain become fast and easy. These
facility are available in developed countries but in India slowly the culture is staring beginning.</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>When the Industry seed of Volume is growing the optimization was needed and that is how we started
optimization optimizing this facility and operation is faster and easier cost of packing decreases and in total look</p> 
<p style='text-align:justify;'>at the cost of the packages versus a gunny bag should be less and manpower savings so all put
together it make sense to optimize the Cold Storage facilities. We should also have Web enabled
Inventory Monitoring System in the cold storage for the client if the client sends 3 trucks of chilies
with good premium quality with the purchase from various vendors so the client will be knowing
about his stock monitoring. So the Indian cold chain industry is slowly gearing up and doing such
enabled Inventory system. They are slowly migrating from typical Excel and going beyond. The client sit and
see by a click of a button anywhere and we are doing since 10 years. By doing Inventory Audit couple of things
the SOP&apos;s should be right or less it will a great challenge and there is increase in Man Power, increase in system
there is an impact in the bottom line so when we plant with such Inventory Management system, such things
pay back maintain the stock accurately and giving back right feed back to the client. The various reports which
will inspire the clients like Product Expiry Report, FIFO Report, Automated Previous day Transaction Report,
Stock Report (Daily/ Weekly/ Monthly), Space Utilization Report, Transaction Mail/SMS, Monthly Audit Report,
Air Monitoring Report, Temperature Mapping Report. It has to collective effort in bringing out this aspect to the
cold storage owners. There are 95% unorganized sector dose error by keeping vegetables in required
temperature so they have to face the cost reduction at the end at least by 30% and finally they lose the value on
the investment. So we need to bring such Management quality systems into the cold storage Industry with real
time access of temperature & Humidity and we need to adhere to Rodent Management system in the Cold
Storage Industry. It is better to have certification because that will have system and structure in place when
Auditor comes in will question when you don&apos;t have certification especially pharma should have GDP guideline
for storage facility and safety measures to be adhered strictly. Thank you.</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri Madhusudan Rao, Principal Scientist, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, (ICAR)</b></p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>Thanks for the opportunity, CFTI has been working in the area of post-harvest in fisheries, we are responsible for
sustainable Fishing resilient Fishing and also to maintain the quality. There are several characters to spoilage
and affecting food perishability. One fourth of the world food supply and 30% of Landed Fish are lost through
microbial activity alone like External Condition, Product Conditions, and Biochemical and Microbiological
distraction, Contamination of Food by Microorganisms pesticides and adulterants. Rancid flavor warmed over
Flavor change of Texture. Food Borne Diseases. There are several process of preservation methods Thermal
processing and Non Thermal Processing, in Thermal Processing Baking, Frying, Ohmic Heating, Microwave, Radio
Frequency, Infrared, Drying, Extrusion. In Non-Thermal Processing Chilling, Freezing, Freeze Dying, High
Pressure Processing, Pulsed Electric Field, Pulsed Light, Ultrasound, Oscillating Magnetic Field, Ozone ,
Eradication, Gas, Cold Plasma. The basic difference as far as Fish is concerned, it is necessary to preserve the
Fish 0 degree centigrade after the catch as it&apos;s spoilage is very fast. There are two types of store like chilled
store and cold store especially for the Fish Industry and the freezing of Fish happens with slow Freezing and
Rapid Freezing. At the time of Harvest Capture and preprocessing the temperature should be -4 degree and time
of processing, storage or distribution it should be -18 degree. And these two things should be maintained
weather it is for consumer consumption or for Export Market. AS per the dept. of Fisheries trends in Indian Fish
Production India is the second Largest Fish producer in the world with 125.9 lakh Tones of production in 2017-
18. In that Marine Fish production was 36.88 Lakh Tons and Inland Fish 89.02 Lakhs Tons with the contribution
of 1,33,492 crores. There are impressive growth in Indian Fisheries Export in 2019-20 the 6679 million US
Dollar. The cold chain Fisheries the maximum exports are Frozen Foods is the mainstay of sea food exports from
India at the quantity of 10,55,310 tons with the value of 42,600 crore. Fish produced in India is marketed mainly
as Fresh/ Chilled Fish and Frozen Fish. At CFTI we have the system where the consumer can get the information
about the product depending upon the changing the color of the dot you can have a visual assessment weather
the fish is being sold or in good condition or they are ready to eat and these dot will help the consumer. In AP
the most of the production is coming from Inland Aqua culture. ICAR-CIFT has developed a refrigeration enabled
fish vending kiosks to improve the handling and marketing practices of Fisher Folks. This Kiosk is found favorable
and affordable to small scale and retail fish vendors and all the harbors need to have chilling facility. Availability
of good Ice should be there at all Fishing harbors so it is useful for processing the Fish then we need to have
refrigerator display cabinet for the markets and the shipment of chilled fish will be having a very less shellfire
right from the point of catch through the processing and packing and distribution then the only it is enable us to
get the good quality of fish. I conclude here. Thank you. .</p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'><b>Shri. Giridhar Krishna, Registrar, Acharya N G Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur</b></p>
<p style='text-align:justify;'>Thanks for ASSOCHAM for giving opportunity, I think we play a very important role by educating the students
on Agriculture and other in the Industry Sector pertaining to the Farmer. So this is the important subject at the
present situation especially agriculture commodities. We have seen last year even during post pandemic we
should all compliment the farmer who was there outside all the time in the fields and produced food for the
population which was actually closed doors due to this corvid pandemic. So here our Agriculture University HQ
at Guntur, is serving the research needs and Education needs to the 13 districts of AP and Agriculture Research
center nearly 32 no&apos;s in these 13 districts and we have 13 University KVK&apos;s and 8 to 10 NGO&apos;s KVK&apos;s which are
under technical control of our University working the districts and every districts we have Data Centers so we
are working as liaison as state govt. Initiated 10,000 and odd Raita Barawasa Kendra( RBK) so our 2 scientist are
situated at 2 districts working as liaison district resource center looking after the needs of these RBK&apos;s. at district
level and at education side we have 8 Agriculture collages and 6 private collages established last year. So the
cold chain Management our university have specialized courses especially in Under Graduate courses. So lack of
storage facility and also long distance travel by keeping temperature control of quality foods. So India is
dependent 70% on Agriculture and so we need to know how best we should understand to reduce the losses
through this cold chain and also establishing the facility also bringing a fresh produce from the field from the
farmer&apos;s production site it to the consumer&apos;s outlet apart from the Meat, Fish and milk. So we have Milk chilling
centers especially in the production of milk side is very tailor made and farmer produce milk is reaching the
consumer with all the support from govt. and all the private industries which is reaching to the consumer.
Similarly all the agriculture producers right from the farmer production site in the field it should reach the
consumer and the farmer should get benefited because of this cold chain facility established at different centers.
If the RBK are connected to the cold chain or supply chain facilities by giving time to store his produce at this
place for longer time so he can sell at a better price later on at a cost effective cold storage facility will benefit
the farmers. Similarly AP we are seeing farmer will be producing the tomato and onion with limited water</p> 
<p style='text-align:justify;'>facility and we farmer comes to the market the glut will be there through Imports and finally not able
to sell his produce and transportation cost not able to meet finally will be throwing away his produce
by leaving away his profit. So these kind of things require maximum attention if we can established
the cold chain facility near to the farmer&apos;s production areas. In Krishi Vignana Kendra we are building
the capacity of the farmers to adopt the latest technologies by training them we are also evaluating
certain technologies in farmer fields so that he can transmit the same to other farmer. Around 6 years back
Indian council of Agriculture Research has conducted a program called ARYA. KVK are training the youth farmers
to retain them in Agriculture in villages by making profitable and be a profession and also by using the cold chain
technologies by training them for 3 to 6 months and we can generate the skilled employment so that they will
be given opportunity like alternate employment. Farm Mechanization is doing by Agri. Engg. For ease of doing
Agriculture with the help of this implements. In the seed supply chain it is for Agriculture from the university
side we are producing breeder seed which is a pure seed from that again Foundation seeds and certified seeds
will be supplied to the farmers the vital seed which is viable to the next season if this cold chain or cold storage
facility is there they are extended at the villages&apos; level so farmer can definitely can store the seed with a normal
cost and viable and germination is not affected. Thank you.
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