Events · 7 min
India Cold Chain Show 2026, Mumbai: what a cold store owner should do with it
22 to 24 October at NESCO, Goregaon. What is on the floor, which half of it is for you, and how to spend a single day if that is all you have.
Cold Storage Directory · Guides
Cold storage guides
Written for people building a cold store, applying for subsidy, or deciding where to send a crop. No rupee figures we cannot stand behind — what moves the number, and where the current number has to come from.
Buying · 8 min
What to look at on a cold chain show floor, and what to walk past
Three halls, four hundred stands and two days. Most of it is not for you. Here is the part that is.
Project cost · 9 min
What it costs to build a 5,000 MT cold store in India
What the money actually goes on, what moves the number most, and the line almost every first-time project forgets.
Subsidy · 11 min
Cold storage subsidy in India: NHB, MIDH and AIF, and what actually gets sanctioned
Which scheme covers your store, the cost norms the subsidy is worked out on, a worked example, and the order things must happen in if the money is to arrive at all.
Storage type · 7 min
Bag, bulk or box: what cold storage buyers now ask for
Almost every Indian potato store is bag-type. The buyers who pay the most are the ones who no longer accept it.
For buyers · 6 min
What to ask a cold store before you send a truck
Nine questions that decide whether your crop comes out in the condition it went in.
Project cost · 6 min
How much land a cold store actually needs
The chamber footprint is the small part. Approach, truck turning, weighbridge and yard are what catch people out.