<p style='text-align:justify;'><b>ASSOCHAM & NABARD webinar on "Revamping the Future Indian Cold Chain 
  Industry: Innovation, Challenges, Trends, Opportunities and Way Forward in the 
  State of Andhra Pradesh&quot;\ 4th March 2021(11 Am to 1 Pm).</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>1. Smt. Poonam Malakondaiah, IAS
  Special Chief Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Co Operation
  Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>2. Shri. Chiranjiv Choudhary, IFS
  Commissioner of Horticulture, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh.</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> 3. Dr. BNS Murthy, CEO & Advisor, NCCD,
  Department of Agriculture, Co Operation & Farmers Welfare.</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>4. Shri. Sudhir Kumar Jannawar, Chief General Manger,
  NABARD Regional Office, Andhra Pradesh</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b> 5. Shri. Gubba Kiran, CEO
  Gubba Cold Storage</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>6. Dr. B Madhusudana Rao, M.V.Sc., Ph.D.
  Principal Scientist, ICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Technology
  Visakhapatanam, AP.</b></p>
  <p style='text-align:justify;'><b>7. Dr. Giridhar Kirshana, M.Sc (Ag), Ph.D.
  Registrar, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University, Guntur, Ap<b></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 
  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 
  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 
  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 
  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. 
  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.
  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. 
  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 
  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 
    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.</p>