UK To Work With India On Creating A Cold Food Chain
India is the world's largest producer of milk and the second-largest producer of fruit and vegetables. Yet it is home to more than 25 per cent of the world's hungry poor.
The lack of a reliable, integrated cold chain across the country is a significant contributing factor to this loss of food, a panel discussion at a House of Lords committee room highlighted.
Pawanexh Kohli, chief advisor to India's National Centre for Cold Chain Development, suggested that to make proper use of the cold chain infrastructure already available in India, an additional 60,000 refrigerated trucks are needed immediately, just to transport food from the field to the major cities.
"Factoring in projected growth in Indian cold infrastructure in the years to come and continued growth in demand, the need for new refrigerated vehicles could be much, much higher," he said at the 'Sustainably Meeting the Global Food Crisis: Why we need to green cold chains' event.
The Indian National Centre for Cold Chain Development projects the need to spend more than USD 20 billion on cold chain infrastructure, of which almost 50 per cent will be needed for refrigerated transport.
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