Objective

To provide integrated cold chain, preservation and value addition infrastructure facilities,
without any break, from the farm gate to the consumer to ensure remunerative prices to farmers
and year-round availability of food products to consumers.
Eligible organizations/ Entities
Partnership/ Proprietorship Firms, Companies, Corporations, Cooperatives, Self Help Groups
(SHGs), Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), NGOs, Central/ State PSUs etc.

Components of the Scheme

1. Farm Level Infrastructure, which may include a processing center situated in the
catchment area of the targeted produce. This shall have one or more of the facilities
mentioned in (a) to (j) below. In addition, it may also have one or more of the
facilities mentioned in (m) to (u) below.
For projects in the fruits & vegetables sector, farm level infrastructure shall include
at least one of the facilities listed at (a), (c) & (m) below:
(a) Integrated Pack-house (with mechanized sorting & grading line/ packing line/
waxing line/ staging cold rooms, etc.)
(b) Ripening Chambers
(c) Cold Storage Unit(s) (Associated with value addition)
(d) Controlled Atmosphere (CA) storage (Associated with value addition)
(e) Frozen Storage/Deep freezers [Associated with value addition]
(f) IQF line, Tunnel Freezer, Spiral Freezer, Blast Freezer, Plate Freezer
(g) Vacuum Freeze Drying
(h) Milk Chilling / Bulk Milk Cooling/ Automatic Milk Collection Unit/ Milk Processing Unit
(including packing) for which temperature control is necessary during some part of the
processing. (Maximum 50 nos. of Milk Chilling or Bulk Milk Cooling or Automatic Milk
Collection Unit to be assisted per project)
(i) Poultry/Meat/Marine/Fishery Processing Unit
(j) Packaging line for chilled /frozen/temperature controlled products
(k) Food Irradiation unit
(l) Refrigerated/ Insulated transport
(m)Pre Cooling Unit(s)
(n) Mobile pre-coolers
(o) Retail refrigerated carts, temperature controlled solar powered retail carts
(maximum 10 numbers to be assisted per project)
(p) Reefer boats (maximum 10 numbers to be assisted per project)
(q) Refrigerated Containers including multi-modal container units
(r) Renewable/ alternate energy technologies (solar, biomass, wind, etc.) for the
project. [Maximum permissible cost is Rs. 35 lakh, as per MIDH norms]
(s) Accessories/ support infrastructure/ utilities such as fixed racking system in Cold/
CA storage, forklifts, reach trucks, bins, insulated fish boxes, pallets, dock levelers,
mezzanine flooring, ETP, Boiler, CIP unit, Depodder, Peeler, Slicer/ Dicer, Blancher,
Sorting/ Grading line, etc.
(t) In-house product testing laboratory
(u) Any other modern technology for temperature-controlled storage, processing, value
addition and preservation infrastructure as may be decided by Inter-Ministerial Approval
Committee (IMAC)
(v) Toilets, Septic tank, drainage, etc

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