India is one of the largest producers of horticultural crops in the world. However, India lags far behind countries like China and the United States in terms of yield per hectare and stores only 2% of its produce under temperature-controlled conditions. This is because the country has adequate capacity to store ten percent of its production. Of the total production, 30-40% is wasted before consumption due to supply chain inadequacies. In India, cold storage has been widely adopted for long-term storage of potatoes, onions and high-value crops like apples, grapes and flowers. 75 percent of cold storage capacity is used to store potatoes, while only 23 percent falls under the multi-product category. Cold storage for meat, fish and dairy products as well as other products such as chillies and other spices represent only 1 percent of the total cold storage capacity. These cold storage warehouses are also generally smaller