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.
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.
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 · 8 min
Cold storage subsidy in India: what actually gets sanctioned
The schemes are real and the money is real. The gap is between what is announced and what a file has to contain.
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.