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Cold Chain Summit 17 18 December 2010
1. Logistics Challenges - Management of Perishables C. Maheshwar Fleet Management Limited Two day Summit on Cold Chain Management Mumbai 17-18 December 2010
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3. This presentation is dedicated to the thousands of Indian farmers involved in growing fruits and vegetables who have committed suicide in the last ten years due to market compulsions and post harvest losses.
6. Thousands of consignments of perishable goods are exported from India to various parts of the world. All of them do not reach their destination in the original form and quality. They end up like …..
We focus on economic aspects of inland transportation and storage of high value fruits & vegs
How about the cost of storage for such long periods assuming that the tech is there.
They are attracted by high profitability of f&v compared to alternate crops without adding the post harvest losses and carry over charges of storage- When we take these into consideration, what is the true picture like?
What is the capacity (volume) of RC and the economics (capital +running costs) per cu.ft./pm
Dairy (Amul) model appropriate but here we deal with a mix of low value high volume f&v and all may not justify carry ver cost per tom
Compared to milk, f&v seems can easily absorb another 10% cost escalation to save 30% that is going waste and mitigate farmers’ miseries through wild price fluctuations (as in onions etc.)
The third above can be disputed. If purchase parity is considered instead of exchange value of rupee, operating costs and energy requirements can be tweaked with purposeful subsidy management to substantially augment the share of agri in GDP and even significantly compete in the international markets! Can we make some estimate subsidy component in the initial phases?
This shows that the traditional marketing channels have to be restructured and modernized. This is where the private-public partnership looks promising.
Can the Reefer Containers avoid extensive cold storages at village level (on the lines Amul did)? How does this mechanism be made technically feasible and cost effective for Indian rural road conditions? If so, what is the optimum capacity under Indian conditions? Can the Amul pattern of self-help groups(or coops) at village level and f&v collection routes for RC with a district Federation as a Section 25 producers’ company for packaging and distribution. Our aim is to indicate a viable O&M approach….
CC defined to include farm level procurement points to grading/processing point to retail.
RC providing precooling from farm to cold storage is close to Amul model
I think value-addition in terms of processing will be done for national markets before export- This is also true of Amul model.
This is where Amul model can provide answer!
Retai segment is emerging under separate corporate structure. We can perhaps concentrate from farm to retail as government’s responsibility under Horticulture Mission but should aim for 360q+0 defect concept for it.
Quality check points from farm to packaging may be built into the infrastructure as it evolves