SECTOR : LOGISTIC MANAGEMENT

 Akash Rajpura
 Mehul Parmar
 Jigesh Soni
 Parth Kakkad
 Chirag Jain
 Annirudh
Develop export oriented storage chain and
Provide Modern Terminal Market for fruit,
Vegetables and other perishables
 The cold chain industry is estimated to be as large as Rs 10,000-15,000
crore, growing at 20-25 percent and is expected to touch Rs 40,000 crore
by 2015
 India is the largest producer of fruits and the second largest producer of
vegetables in the world, with total production of 63.5 million tones of
fruits and 125.89 million tones of vegetables.
 The perishable products transaction volume in India is estimated to be
around 230 million MT. As per industry estimates approximately 104 million
MT of perishable produce is moved in the country in a year, out of which
around 100 million MT goes through non – reefer mode and remaining four
million MT goes through reefer transport.
 It is estimated that about 25000 vehicles are involved in perishable
products transportation of which dairy (wet milk) constitute about 80%,
thereby leaving only about a fleet of 5000 refrigerated transport vehicles
for all other categories put together.
 Most cold storage and refrigerated transport capacity is operated by small,
non integrated firms that do not make use of state – of – the – art
technology or management practices.
 1600 Km long coastal
belt
 Diversified Crops and
Cropping systems
 Climatic diversities
 Good transport facilities
-- PORTS & AIRPORTS
 Enterprising Farmers
having business instincts
 Major Crops: Wheat,
Bajra, Rice, Maize,
Groundnut, Mustard,
Sesame, Gram, Cotton,
Sugarcane.
 Gujarat has highest
productivity in, Mustard,
Castor and cotton,
second highest
productivity in
Groundnut and Bajra,
third highest productivity
in Gram and Guar in the
country.
 Major Crops: Mango,
Banana, Lime, Guava,
Tomato, Potato, Onion,
Cumin, Garlic, Isabgul,
Fennel
 Gujarat has highest
productivity in, Guava,
Potato, Onion, Cumin
and Fennel, third
highest productivity in
Banana and Isabgul in
the country
Infrastructure for marketing of perishables
 Primary grading/ collection centers - non existent
 Warehousing and cold storage - inadequate
 Cold chain - non existent
 Quality certification system - non existent
 Transportation for perishables - non existent
 Rural markets - complete lack of infrastructure
 Wholesale markets - in government control, lack modern facilities

Private / direct markets - limited

Post harvest losses: 25 to 30 % in perishables

Modern terminal markets:

 A professionally managed competitive

structure

 To provide market services

 to farmers at their door step
 Comprehensive solution to meet needs of
stakeholders
 Auction

 Processing industry

 Exports

 Retail chain and Consumers

 Requiring high investment and efficient

management skills
 Can be infused by private enterprise
 Hub-and-Spoke Format: Terminal Market (the hub) to be
linked to number of collection centres (the spokes).

 Collection centres to be conveniently located at key production

centres to allow easy access to farmers

 Provide state of art facilities for

 Transparent price discovery (electronic auction),
 Primary value addition( washing, grading, packing etc),
 Sourcing for processing and exports,
 Other services such as banking etc.

 Commodities to be covered include

 Fruits and vegetables, Flowers, aromatics and herbs
 Meat & Poultry
 Other Commodities
 Infrastructure:
 At Terminal Market
 Electronic auction facility
 Pack house
 Quality testing facility
 Material handling equipment
 Cold storage, temperature controlled warehouse, ripening
chamber etc.
 e-trading

 At Collection Centre
 Washing, grading & sorting facility for produce
 Weighing
 Plastic Crates
 Services:
 At Terminal Market
 Transport (including cool chain)
 Warehousing and commodity exchange
 Transactional Banking services
 Settlement of payment

 At Collection Centre
 Collection & Aggregation of produce
 Spot payment to farmer at CC
 Advisory on inputs, prices, quality
 Multi-modal transport to TM
 Farmers don’t have to pay for storages
 International market for their crop
 Post harvest loss minimized
 Farmers will get good prices for their crop
 Distribution channel minimized so end user get the
commodity at reasonable rate
Regulatory clearances:
 Single license to operate in the entire State/ adjoining States

 Single point levy & collection of market fee

 Autonomy in commercial operations of TM
 Clearance of land use for the TM/ CCs

 Provision of Civic amenities (including drinking water,

municipal waste disposal, police security, post office etc )

 Statutory clearance from

 Local authority

 Town planning & Urban development

 Revenue department
 Estimated cost of this
project is Rs.280 Crores
 49% Government
partnership is expected
 Estimated return 15 to
18% at operating
capacity of 60%