CONSTRUCTION OF MODERN COLD STORAGES
- MOU SIGNED BETWEEN INDIA AND CANADA
A Memorandum of Understanding
was signed here today between Central Ware Housing Corporation
(CWC) under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution and CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. Canada for
construction of modern cold storages for various agricultural
and poultry products. This MOU was signed by Shri N.K. Choubey,
Managing Director of CWC on behalf of India and by Mr. Lucio Sacchetti
of CMC Enginering and Management Ltd. for Canada. Mr. Peter Sutherland,
Canadian High Commissioner in India also attended the function.
Speaking on the occasion
Shri Sharad Yadav, Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution said that this venture would achieve our long cherished
objectives of elimination of spoilage and wastage through agri-industry
modernisation. India is poised for constucting modern cold chain
through out the country equipped with latest international technologies
and with special refrigerated vehicles creating a cold corridor
from Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh extending upto Mumbai.
These projects are going to benefit our farmers whose agricultural
and horticultural products would be available all over the country
and create possibilities of their exports to developed countries.
Further, this project would reduce wastage of agricultural products
altogether and help our farmers to get remunerative prices; the
Minister added.
CWC has been contemplating
to enter into the area of cold chain to minimise post-harvest
losses and spoilage in storage handing an transportation between
production centres to consumption areas and to diversify from
" just warehousing" to value addition through product preservation,
logistics and transportation management throughout the country
for perishable agriproducts. The MOU between the Corporation and
CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. Canada would facilitate studies
as well as design adaptation of modern technology for making the
cold chain concept a reality in the country.
