India’s solutions to cut milk waste - Inficold With a view to cut down milk waste, Indian dairy cooperatives and farmers are using solar-po...
India’s solutions to cut milk waste - Inficold
With a view to cut down milk waste, Indian dairy cooperatives and farmers are using solar-powered cold chain solutions.
Many companies are also offering solar-powered cold storages to dairy farm cooperatives as they are operating where continuous power is an issue.
According to a joint study by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) and MRSS, dairy and vegetable produce worth USD $440 billion goes to waste, due to unavailability of proper cold storage facilities in rural and other parts of the country.
This waste accounts for over 40% to 50% of the total production. The report also says India can only accommodate 11% of its country’s total perishable produce. With the huge scope in the cold storage sector, many private companies are coming up with novel products.
Currently, India produces 165 million tonnes of milk annually and is the world’s largest producer. However, over 3% or close to 5 million tonnes of milk gets wasted due to unreliable electricity supply. To minimise the waste, milk needs to be cooled at the source in order to increase its shelf life. To provide refrigeration, milk producers have to depend on diesel generators, which makes the cooling process expensive.
Inficold is a solution – a farmer can solve this problem and install the solar-powered system to its cold storage system already installed.
Inficold has retrofittable ice storage for cooling devices, the system can be installed on any bulk milk cooler, air conditioner or cold storage. The idea is to take electricity, convert it into ice and when there is no electricity, use the ice to provide cooling.
Speaking on this, the company co-founder & CEO Nitin Goel said that both the co-founders were working in the US when they believed that they could solve the refrigeration problem for perishable products.
500 Ltr / 1000 Ltr Bulk Milk Cooler