Lok Sabha Question No. 2185 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-02
Subject: Wastage due to Insufficient Storage
Ministry: CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
Asked by: Mahesh Sahoo

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2185 TO BE ANSWERED ON 2ND AUGUST, 2023

## WASTAGE DUE TO INSUFFICIENT STORAGE

## 21858  SHRI MAHESH SAHOO:

Will the Minister of CONSUMER  AFFAIRS! FOOD  AND PUBLIC DiSTRiBUTiON  3qqtqT WT% @ru3it©T+gfRqfqTWT  ++  be pleased  to  state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that huge amount of agricultural produce is wasted due to storing issues, if so, the steps that have been taken so far by the Government;
- (b) the wastage of agricultural produce both in volume and value in the last five financial  years due to  poor facility  of storage;
- (c) the total requirement of cold storages in the country and list of the existing number of such facilities,  State-wise;
- (d) the steps being taken by the Government to close the deficit, if there is a shortage of facilitIes;  and
- (e) the plans envisaged to build new cold storage facility  in Odisha?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINISTRY  OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND CONSUMER AFFAIRSI FOOD & PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION

(SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

- (a) and (b):  No wastage of central  pool foodgrain stocks  (wheat & rice) stored in godowns can be directly attributed to storing issues/poor storage facility.
- (c) to (e): Under Mission for  Integrated Development of  Horticulture (MIDH) for holistic development of horticulture sector including setting up of cold storages for  perishable horticulture  produce throughout the  country  including Odisha. The component of cold storage is demand/entrepreneur  driven for which Government assistance in  the  form  of  credit  linked  back ended subsidy is available at the rate of 3596 of the eligible project cost in general areas and at the rate  of  50%  of  the eligible project cost in  hilly  and  scheduled  areas  through respective State Horticulture Mission(s) (SHMs)B As per study conducted by NABARD  Consultancy Services (NABCONS) in  2015  on  'All India Cold-Chain Infrastructure Capacity (AICIC>2015)' assessed the  required capacity of  cold storages at  that time as 351.00 lakh MT against the existing capacity of 318.23 lakh MT in 2014.

As on date, total 8,639 cold storages are in the country with the capacity of 393,62 lakh MT, The State-wise  details  are enclosed at AnnexureB

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2185 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 02.08.2023 IN LOK SABHA

## The State-wise details on the Cold Storages  in the Country  are as under:

| S. No.   | Name of the State          | Total   | Total         |
|----------|----------------------------|---------|---------------|
| S. No.   | Name of the State          | No.     | Capacity (MT) |
| 1        | man & NicobarIslands(UT)   | 4       | 2210          |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh & Telangana | 467     | 1893071       |
| 3        | mr ma lal Pradesh          | 2       | 6000          |
| 4        | Assam                      | 45      | 216388        |
| 5        | Bihar                      | 313     | 1476557       |
| 6        | Chandigarh (UT)            | 7       | 12462         |
| 7        | Chhattisgarh               | 120     | 553832        |
| 8        | Delhi                      | 97      | 129857        |
| 9        | Goa                        | 29      | 7705          |
| 10       | Gujarat                    | 1004    | 3932193       |
| 11       | Haryana                    | 380     | 861670        |
| 12       | HimachalPradesh            | 89      | 174072        |
| 13       | Jammu& Kashmir             | 88      | 336515        |
| 14       | Jharkhand                  | 60      | 248629        |
| 15       | Karnataka                  | 250     | 838940        |
| 16       | Kerala                     | 202     | 96655         |
|          | Lakshadweep(UT)            |         | 15            |
|          | a                          | 315     | 1364003       |
|          | a ;                        | 655     | 1174075       |
| 20       | Manipur                    | 2       | 4500          |
| 21       | Meghalaya                  | 4       | 8200          |
| 22       | Mizoram                    | 73      | --m           |
| 2 3      | Nagaland                   | 5       |               |
| 24       | Odisha                     | m-      |               |
| 25       | Pondicherry (UT)           | l4--a   |               |
| 26       | Punjab                     | 7       |               |
| 27       | Rajasthan                  | I       |               |
| 28       | Sikkim                     | 1       |               |
| 29       | Tamil Nadu                 | a8--Im  |               |
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Directorate of  Marketing and Inspection (DMI)  upto 2009, National Horticulture Board (NHB), Horticulture Mission (NHM),  Horticulture Mission for North East &  Himalayan States (WNEH)) and (Source: National MoFPI.

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