AFFECTED SECTORS

1. Food Sector:

Process:

Industry Temperature standards:

Refrigerated Optimum
Product Shelf Life Temperature
(Days) (Celcius)

Apple 90-240 0

Bananas 7-28 13.5

Bell Peppers 21-35 7

Cabbage 14-20 1

Eggs 180 1.1

Onions 30-180 1

Lettuce 12-14 0.6

Fresh Meat (beef, lamb,

14-65 -2
pork, poultry)

Oranges 21-90 7

Pears 120-180 -0.6

Potatoes 30-50 10

Seafood (shrimp, lobster,

120-360 -17.8
crab)

Strawberries 5-10 0.6

Tomatoes 7-14 12
 2. Bio-Pharmaceutical:

Cold chain management is looked more in terms of regulatory compliance rather than its role in product quality and
patient safety

The ideal pharmaceutical cold chain should be capable of:

Dealing with changing product portfolios

The requirements for Good Storage and Distribution Practices
Current regulatory trends
Quality management and
Temperature monitoring

Aging Population Downward pressure on public healthcare costs Growing patient demand for leading edge medical
technology

3. Agricultural sector:
40% of the fruits and vegetables grown in India (40 mT worth $13 billion) get wasted every year.
Wide gaps exist in the cold chain Infrastructure not existing for the produced capacities
Transportation (temperature controlled) is inefficient
Services of cold stores are used with archaic storage technology
No dominant players in the market and the market is dominated by Domestic players Isolated stores without
logistics Support

4. Floriculture Sector:
The industry comprises of:
Nursery plants
Extraction of essential oils from flowers
Bulb and seed production
Airlines do not prefer to carry cargo which is seasonal, perishable, voluminous yet not in such large quantity .
Because of the small volume of flowers they mostly have to be transported on regular flights which have limited
cargo-space Florist trade
The industry has been growing at a CAGR of 25% over the past decade.

5. Dairy Sector:
Operation flood has made India the worlds largest milk producing country with a mammoth 95mT capacity
Milk Farmers Dairy Cooperatives Distribution centres Milk parlours or retail outlets
Inadequate institutional and infrastructure facilities like no cold storage, non existence of modernized
processing equipments :
Inefficient supply chain
Lack of organized marketing of milk
Lack of scientific and profession management
Lack of capital investment

6. Poultry, Meat and Fish Industry:

India produces about 4.9 million tonne of meat annually (8th in World)
Buffalo meat is surplus in India
India exports both frozen and fresh chilled meat to more than 54 countries in the world
The meat processing industry is still nascent
There is large scope for meat processing in poultry as well as in red meat
Ready to eat (RTE)/chicken products is growing at a rate of 10-15 per cent
The total market for non-vegetarian value-added products (for example; nuggets, kababs, etc) is Rs 150-180
crore
 Poor infrastructure and cold chain facility are the major stumbling blocks in the path of growth
Need to improve retail infrastructure and educate retailers about these products
India ranks second in the world fish production with an annual fish production of about 6.9 million metric
tonnes.
Frozen shrimp contributes 66.97 per cent of Indias total marine product export
India exports both frozen and fresh chilled meat to more than 54 countries in the world
Only five per cent of Indias seafood exports are in processed form
More than 60 per cent of Indias exports to south-east Asia are re-exported after processing
Unorganized state of the suppliers
Inability to form a cartel similar to the oil cartel
Dependency of several poor southern countries on fish as a valuable foreign exchange earner have
relegated southern seafood exporters to price takers