Lok Sabha Question No. 3833 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-21
Subject: Cold Storage for Processed Food Items
Ministry: FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES
Asked by: Sunil Baburao Mendhe

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 3833

ANSWERED ON 21 ST  DECEMBER, 2021

## COLD STORAGE FOR PROCESSED FOOD ITEMS

## 3833.  SHRI SUNIL BABURAO MENDHE:

Will the Minister of FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of cold storages set up for storing perishable commodities, processed food items, poultry meat, sea food etc., in Maharashtra;
- (b) whether there is shortage of cold storage facilities in some districts;
- (c) if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the steps taken by Government to establish more cold storages, including in the PublicPrivate Partnership mode and the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES (SHRI PRAHLAD SINGH PATEL)

(a) to (d): Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) does not support setting up of stand alone cold storages. However, it incentivizes creation of cold storage infrastructure as part of food processing projects under relevant component schemes of Central Sector Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY). Under its component schemes,  Ministry provides credit linked financial assistance (capital subsidy) in the form of grants-in-aid to entrepreneurs for setting up of food processing / preservation industries with cold storage infrastructure also.  As part of 3 Mega Food Parks in Maharashtra, Ministry has approved  setting up of cold storage and  deep  freeze  capacity  of  8200  MT  and  as  part  of  62  Integrated  Cold  Chain  projects  in Maharashtra,  Ministry  has  approved  creation  of  cold  storage  capacity  of  1.9  LMT  under corresponding component schemes of PMKSY. Out of these projects, 2 Mega Food Parks and 58 Cold chain projects have been made operational. District-wise details of these projects is placed at Annexure .

Also,  Department  of  Agriculture  &  Farmers  Welfare  is  implementing  Mission  for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) for development of Horticulture in the country including Maharashtra under which financial assistance is available, inter-alia, for setting up of Post  Harvest  Management  (PHM)  infrastructure  including  establishment  of  cold  storages (Construction, Expansion and Modernization) etc. The component is demand/ entrepreneurdriven for which assistance at the rate 35% of the eligible project cost in general areas and 50% in hilly & scheduled areas, is available as credit linked back ended subsidy through respective State Horticulture Missions.

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## ANNEXURE

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) TO (d) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  3833  FOR  ANSWER  ON  21 ST   DECEMBER,  2021  REGARDING  COLD STORAGE FOR PROCESSED FOOD ITEMS

Mega  Food  Parks  and  Integrated  Cold  Chain  Projects  with  Cold  storage  facility  assisted  in Maharashtra under component schemes of Pradhan mantra Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY)

## Mega Food Park Projects:

(Rs. in Cr)

|   S. No. | Project Name                            | Date of Approval   |   Project Cost |   Grant approved |   Grant released |   Cold /Frozen Storage Capacity (MT) | Status               |
|----------|-----------------------------------------|--------------------|----------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------------------------|----------------------|
|        1 | Paithan Mega Food Park Ltd., Aurangabad | 08.03.2013         |         124.52 |            48.82 |            43.96 |                                 2000 | Operational          |
|        2 | Satara Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd., Satara | 06.08.2014         |         139.33 |            50    |            45    |                                 4200 | Operational          |
|        3 | Wardha Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd, Wardha  | 13.01.2016         |          92.36 |            50    |            15    |                                 2000 | Under Implementation |

## Integrated Cold Chain Projects :

(Rs in Cr)

|   S. No | Project                            | District   | Date of Approval   |   Approved grant-in- aid) |   Amount of grant released |   Total Capacity of Cold Storage/ CA/MA Storage/ Frozen Store (Lakh MT) | Physical Progress   |
|---------|------------------------------------|------------|--------------------|---------------------------|----------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------|
|       1 | Freshtrop Fruits Ltd.              | Nashik     | 27.03.2009         |                      8.47 |                       8.47 |                                                                   0.001 | Operational         |
|       2 | I.G. International                 | Amravati   | 25.05.2011         |                      8.96 |                       8.96 |                                                                   0.05  | Operational         |
|       3 | Saastha Warehousing Ltd            | Raigad     | 25.05.2011         |                      9.21 |                       9.21 |                                                                   0.1   | Operational         |
|       4 | Savla Foods & Cold Storage Pvt Ltd | Mumbai     | 25.05.2011         |                      7.2  |                       7.2  |                                                                   0.052 | Operational         |
|       5 | Warana Dairy& Agro Industries Ltd, | Sholapur   | 01.06.2011         |                      9.15 |                       9.15 |                                                                   0     | Operational         |
|       6 | Blue Fin Frozen Pvt. Ltd.          | Raigad     | 04.07.2012         |                      6.16 |                       6.16 |                                                                   0.008 | Operational         |
|       7 | B. Y. Agro& Infra Pvt. Ltd.        | Nagpur     | 05.07.2012         |                      7.25 |                       7.25 |                                                                   0.035 | Operational         |
|       8 | Western Hill Foods Ltd             | Pune       | 31.07.2012         |                      7.42 |                       7.42 |                                                                   0.02  | Operational         |
|       9 | Haldiram Foods Intl. Limited       | Nagpur     | 28.08.2012         |                      6.11 |                       6.11 |                                                                   0.115 | Operational         |
|      10 | Cold Star Logistics Pvt. Ltd.      | Raigad     | 05.09.2012         |                      9.24 |                       9.24 |                                                                   0.05  | Operational         |
|      11 | Baramati Agro Limited              | Pune       | 20.09.2013         |                      3.89 |                       3.89 |                                                                   0     | Operational         |
|      12 | Elaf Cold Storage                  | Raigad     | 20.09.2013         |                      7.16 |                       7.16 |                                                                   0.035 | Operational         |

|   13 | Indapur Dairy& Milk Products Ltd            | Pune                 | 20.09.2013   |   7.07 |   7.07 | 0.005   | Operational   |
|------|---------------------------------------------|----------------------|--------------|--------|--------|---------|---------------|
|   14 | Mhetre Foods Pvt. Ltd                       | Pune                 | 20.09.2013   |   4.78 |   4.78 | 0.020   | Operational   |
|   15 | Omni Fresh Agro                             | Nashik               | 20.09.2013   |   5.65 |   5.65 | 0.035   | Operational   |
|   16 | Saikrupa Industries                         | Nashik               | 20.09.2013   |   2.06 |   2.06 | 0.000   | Operational   |
|   17 | Satec Envir Engineering (I) Pvt. Ltd        | Nashik               | 20.09.2013   |   5.47 |   5.47 | 0.060   | Operational   |
|   18 | Shivtirth Dairy& Agro Producers Company Ltd | Sangli               | 20.09.2013   |   2.45 |   2.45 | 0.000   | Operational   |
|   19 | Sunfresh Agro Industries Pvt. Ltd           | Ahmednagar20.09.2013 |              |   9.55 |   9.55 | 0.000   | Operational   |
|   20 | Tirupati Balaji Agro Products Pvt. Ltd.     | Pune                 | 20.09.2013   |   7.66 |   7.66 | 0.005   | Operational   |
|   21 | D.J. Exports Pvt.Ltd.                       | Thane, Pune          | 04.10.2013   |   5.19 |   5.19 | 0.021   | Operational   |
|   22 | Forstar Frozen Food Pvt. Ltd.               | Navi Mumbai          | 04.10.2013   |  10    |  10    | 0.020   | Operational   |
|   23 | Global Foods                                | Nagpur               | 04.10.2013   |   9.55 |   9.55 | 0.050   | Operational   |
|   24 | VaishVik Foods Pvt.LTd.                     | Satara               | 04.10.2013   |   7.39 |   7.39 | 0.065   | Operational   |
|   25 | Swaraj India Industries Ltd.                | Satara               | 20.11.2013   |   8.46 |   8.46 | 0.005   | Operational   |
|   26 | Gonglu Agro Pvt Ltd                         | Nashik               | 22.05.2015   |   7.69 |   7.69 | 0.035   | Operational   |
|   27 | Western Superfresh Corporation              | Raigad               | 22.05.2015   |   8.46 |   8.46 | 0.125   | Operational   |
|   28 | Rishi Ice and Cold Storage Pvt. Ltd.        | Navi Mumbai          | 30.09.2016   |   7.85 |   7.85 | 0.090   | Operational   |
|   29 | Farmico Cold Chain &Logistics Limited       | Nagpur               | 17.04.2017   |   7.02 |   5.78 | 0.094   | Operational   |
|   30 | Anant Dudh Pvt Ltd                          | Pune                 | 17.04.2017   |   7.25 |   7.25 | 0.050   | Operational   |
|   31 | Prabhat Dairy Ltd                           | Srirampur            | 17.04.2017   |   8.44 |   8.44 | 0.003   | Operational   |
|   32 | P.D. Shah and Sons Cold Storage Pvt. Ltd.   | Satara               | 17.04.2017   |   4.05 |   4.05 | 0.050   | Operational   |
|   33 | Manganga Dairy Industries                   | Solapur              | 17.04.2017   |   1.53 |   1.53 | 0.000   | Operational   |
|   34 | Kisan Mitra Cold Storage Private Limited    | Latur                | 17.04.2017   |   3.75 |   3.75 | 0.05    | Operational   |
|   35 | Balmer Lawrie& Co. Ltd.                     | Raigad               | 19.04.2017   |   6.72 |   5.71 | 0.077   | Operational   |
|   36 | Vaishno Devi Food Products Pvt Ltd          | Osmanabad            | 19.04.2017   |   6.5  |   6.5  |         | Operational   |
|   37 | Seasaga Enterprises Pvt. Ltd                | Raigad               | 19.04.2017   |  10    |  10    | 0.021   | Operational   |

|   38 | Swapnapurti Food Products Pvt. Ltd.                  | Chandrapur   | 19.04.2017   |   2.53 |   2.53 |       | Operational          |
|------|------------------------------------------------------|--------------|--------------|--------|--------|-------|----------------------|
|   39 | Sri Sri Milk and Food Product                        | Pune         | 19.04.2017   |   3.35 |   3.35 | 0.005 | Operational          |
|   40 | Nature Delight Dairy &Dairy Products Private Limited | Pune         | 20.04.2017   |   9.54 |   9.54 | 0     | Operational          |
|   41 | Kool Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.                       | Mumbai       | 20.04.2017   |   9.25 |   9.25 | 0.11  | Operational          |
|   42 | RGA Fresh Fruits Pvt. Ltd.                           | Thane        | 25.04.2017   |   8.19 |   8.19 | 0.041 | Operational          |
|   43 | Siva Sai Exports                                     | Nashik       | 25.04.2017   |  10    |  10    | 0.041 | Operational          |
|   44 | Royal Cold Chain                                     | Solapur      | 25.04.2017   |   6.2  |   4.03 | 0.021 | Operational          |
|   45 | Varun Agro Processing Foods Private Limited          | Nashik       | 25.04.2017   |   6.85 |   6.85 | 0.055 | Operational          |
|   46 | Vaishnavi Grape& Pomegranate Processing Pvt Ltd      | Solapur      | 03.05.2017   |   9.96 |   6.47 | 0.041 | Operational          |
|   47 | Icee Box Integrated Cold Chain                       | Nagpur       | 29.01.2018   |   3.03 |   1.97 | 0.05  | Operational          |
|   48 | Fortune Dairy Industries Pvt Ltd                     | Pune         | 17.04.2017   |   7.74 |   7.74 | 0.02  | Operational          |
|   49 | Taksh Cold Chain,                                    | Amravati     | 15.02.2018   |   9.99 |   6.49 | 0.035 | Operational          |
|   50 | VKMFoods Private Limited                             | Thane        | 12.04.2018   |   4.93 |   4.93 | 0.002 | Operational          |
|   51 | Polisetty Somasundaram Agro Exports                  | Nashik       | 30.10.2018   |  10    |   6.5  | 0.03  | Under Implementation |
|   52 | Healthy Foods                                        | Nashik       | 31.10.2018   |   3.6  |   2.34 | 0     | Operational          |
|   53 | DJ Exports Pvt. Ltd.                                 | Nashik       | 05.11.2018   |   3.61 |   3.61 | 0.012 | Operational          |
|   54 | Sam Agri Fresh Pvt Ltd                               | Nashik       | 06.11.2018   |   6.14 |   3.91 | 0.006 | Operational          |
|   55 | Dairy Power Limited                                  | Nashik       | 08.11.2018   |  10    |   6.5  | 0.001 | Operational          |
|   56 | Heritage Foods Limited                               | Palghar      | 13.11.2018   |   9.82 |   9.82 | 0.002 | Operational          |
|   57 | Yashganga Cold Storage and Food Processing           | Pune         | 11.12.2018   |   8.68 |   5.64 | 0.066 | Operational          |
|   58 | PMD Milk and Foods                                   | Pune         | 27.12.2018   |   4.66 |   3.02 | 0     | Operational          |
|   59 | Elaf Cold Storage                                    | Navi Mumbai  | 18.01.2019   |  10    |   2.5  | 0.007 | Under Implementation |
|   60 | Kalya Exports                                        | Nashik       | 07.01.2019   |   4.79 |   3.1  | 0.004 | Under Implementation |
|   61 | Indapur Dairy& Milk Products Ltd.                    | Pune         | 23.01.2019   |   8.38 |   8.38 | 0.002 | Operational          |
|   62 | Trimurti Dairy Farm                                  | Pune         | 18.03.2019   |   0.88 |   0.22 | 0     | Under Implementation |