India: Vegetable farming takes a hit sans cold storage units
Seven cold storage chambers with a combined capacity of 65 tonnes in Nuagaon and Bisra blocks are lying unutilised in the absence of power supply. Two other Government owned cold storage units, having a combined capacity of 2000 tonnes, are been lying defunct for the last 25 years.
Nuagaon block has been a leading producer of vegetables, but this does not provide any relief to the poor farmers here or people of the district.
Horticulture wing of Agriculture Department and the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Panposh, last year had installed five cold chambers with collective capacity of 45 tonnes in Nuagaon and recently, two more cold chambers with total capacity of 20 tonnes were set up in Bisra.
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