[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Chhattisgarh’s green field hi-tech capital city’s Sector-5, devoted to global investors being invited to set up projects in the non-core sector, even has plots for setting up cold storages — an essential component to bring up the industrial zone also as a ‘food supply chain hub’ of the State.
Chief Minister Raman Singh has stated that a cold storage chain would be created in Chhattisgarh after identifying all the vegetable growing pockets of the State. Singh had called upon the district collectors to prepare a blue print for the far-flung regions of state in the next 24 months.
Notably, the cold chain capacity created by the Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries in Chhattisgarh stood at 8500 metric tonnes (MT) till April 2015, officials stated. In a power point presentation on Prospects of Cold Chain Infrastructure in Eastern Region, the Ministry has spelled out its plans of taking up a total of 500 Integrated Cold Chain projects as per the modified pattern of the Central assistance during the next five years across the country to create capacity of 2.5 million tonnes. The core objective of the projects is to make the scheme of cold chain value addition and preservation infrastructure open ended, it stated. Food Processing Sector in Chhattisgarh is being seen as a ‘focus sector’ to ensure industrial diversity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
