India, Feb. 2 -- Promise of cold storage capacity at villages, warehousing at blocks, refrigerated rail coaches to reduce losses

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the setting up of storage facilities at villages as part of the Creation of Backward and Forward Linkages (CBFL) under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana ( PMKSY ). The proposed facilities will be run by women self-help groups (SHG) and are expected to reduce logistics cost of farmers.

Under CBFL, financial assistance was provided for setting up primary processing centres / collection centres at farm gate and modern retail outlets at the front-end along with connectivity through insulated / refrigerated transport, stated the scheme document. The scheme, ...