Uttar Pradesh is targetting ramping up its cold storage and warehousing capacity for efficient post harvest management of crops and food grain.
The lack of proper warehousing leads to colossal wastage of agricultural crops, especially during the agricultural marketing seasons. At present, there are 1,522 functional cold storages in the state with combined capacity of about 11.13 million tonnes (MT).
During 2011-12, the state had clocked potato production of 12.877 MT and as such there is need for 1.7 MT of additional storage capacity.
In this regard, the state government had already proposed to the Centre to set up 8 new cold storages under the State Horticultural Mission.
Similarly, UP State Warehousing Corporation and Central Warehousing Corporation would construct warehouses with 1.558 MT capacity by October 2013 in UP.
