Cold storage: what is its importance in agriculture?

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Cold Storage What Is Its Importance In
Agriculture?

• Blueiceindia

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• The varied seasons in any location make cold
  storage a much-demanded facility in the
  agriculture sector. The governments are also
  implementing several schemes to make the
  agriculture sector self-reliant using advanced
  technologies and concepts like cold storage. It
  has proved beneficial in bulk handling perishable
  goods by controlling different parameters,
  including temperature and humidity. Cold storage
  is required to maintain the optimum nutrition in
  vegetables and fruits.

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Problems in the Agriculture Sector

• Tons of food get wasted in the transfer of
  agricultural output from the farms to the
  processing units. Different weather and storage
  conditions harm agricultural yields. The humidity
  in the storage areas spoils the crops. It gives
  way to microorganisms that act as spoilage
  agents. A considerable amount of produce requires
  some specific atmospheric conditions to stay in
  its best shape. Cold storage can be a one-stop
  solution to preserve diverse agricultural yields
  and make them available to the end consumer in
  the best condition. To summarize, cold storage
  facilities are used in the agricultural industry
  to minimize post-harvest losses.

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Benefits of Cold Storage

• 1. Longer shelf life of fruits and vegetables
• Warehouse refrigeration stores agricultural
  yields in controlled atmospheric conditions with
  the regulated inflow of gases, including Oxygen,
  Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen, and Carbon Dioxide.
  This is specifically beneficial for storing
  seasonal fruits for them to last longer.
• 2. Temperature control
• Different types of vegetables and fruits are kept
  under regulated temperature to ensure that every
  variety stays fresh for the longest time. In
  addition, the customized temperature controls in
  cold storage refrigerators can be monitored and
  controlled.

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• 3. Cost-efficiency
• Less food wastage directly reduces the losses and
  proves to be very cost-effective. Cold storage in
  the food sector is an evolving field where new
  technologies keep coming up now and then. Many
  hard storage manufacturers in India offer
  Gas-controlled storage, one of the latest
  technologies where the pressure can be as low as
  0.8b bar to save the energy invested in operating
  cold storage.

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• 4. Effective Transportation
• Portable cold storage units have been created to
  transfer agricultural yields from storage
  facilities to distribution centers and shops. In
  addition, many products may suffer from slight
  temperature changes in long-distance
  transportation. Cold storage takes care of all
  these aspects.
• 5. Space efficiency
• Cold storage warehouses have emerged as a
  one-stop solution to store perishable
  agricultural yields in bulk before they head
  toward distribution centers. One location for
  storing all the products helps inventory
  management, leading to better sales and
  purchases.

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CONCLUSION

• Cold storage has become an essential requirement
  in the agricultural sector. Cold storage
  manufacturing is progressing further with new
  technologies. We can now witness the
  implementation of integrated cold chains where
  cold storage refrigeration is implemented across
  the supply chain from transportation to retail
  display infrastructure. With cold chain
  infrastructure, every economy can progress to
  become self-reliant. Contact a cold storage
  manufacturer today to reap maximum benefits from
  your agricultural yields and stay cost-effective.

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