1 National Summit on Cold Chain Emerging Trends and Market Challenges Synergy Hall, Hotel Taj Deccan, Hyderabad 6th February2013

2 Real Time Tracking & Traceability : An Automated Transport System- Journey from Farmland to the End-User DSK Rao, Director, GISPL AGRIBUSINESS KNOWLEDGE CENTRE(AKC) (A PPP initiative between NAARM (ICAR) & Gyantech Information Systems Private Limited( GISPL), Hyderabad)

3 Agenda Indias Agricultural Scenario Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story Issues in Replicating ANAND Success Case Story to Agriculture Storage & Transportation Technologies Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots Way Forward

4 Agenda Indias Agricultural Scenario Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story Issues in Replicating Success Case Story to Agriculture Storage & Transportation Technologies Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots Way Forward

5 Indias Agricultural Scenario India with 329 million hectares of geographical area and 140 million hectares of cultivable land in 638,000 villages falling in 250,000 Panchayats in 616 districts of 28 states & 7 union territories with 15 Agro Climatic Regions and 127 Agro Climatic Zones capable of growing around 400 crops with around 4000 varieties by 125 million farmers of which 87 million farmers are poor and dependent on rain fed farming.. With the RTF(Right-to-food) policy announced by GoI, how do we feed the 1230 million population of India today and 1326 million by 2020 on a sustainable basis with 62% of its population dependent on Agriculture vis-à-vis 3% in developed countries

6 Indias Agricultural Scenario The Challenge is how do we reach these 125 million farmers especially the 87 million farmers who are small and poor and increase their productivity for their improvement and reduce spoilage & quality of Food to ensure Food Security. How do we enable backward & forward Chaining of agriculture produce? Modern India has an Organized tech savvy retail sector with a huge appetite for matured Supply Chain which needs to be fed by an Unorganized farming system!

7 Indias Agricultural Scenario Unlike establishing Supply Chains and forward / backward linkages for other commodities, agriculture produce has a great challenge due its perishable nature and need an entirely different approach in terms of its procurement, transportation, Storage and finally retailing. GISPL/AKC has been studying on finding solutions to the Indian Scenario for the last 3 years which is very much different from that of developed countries

8 Indias Agricultural Scenario Indias food grains production itself is about 250 million MT. It is very essential that we produce, protect, preserve and bring to our plates the Food with least wastage.

9 Agenda Indias Agricultural Scenario Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story Issues in Replicating Success Case Story to Agriculture Storage & Transportation Technologies Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots Way Forward

10 Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story GISPL/AKC has been working relentlessly to formulate a Indian centric strategy to establish backward/forward linkages to the 400 different crops grown in India with about 4000 main varieties. Fortunately, an excellent technology driven model for procurement, transportation, storage / processing and distribution of a perishable item Milk is available in the form

11 Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story ANAND, Gujarat. Technology driven milk collection centers at the village level procure Milk from the Unorganized Villagers after Testing for FAT Content & SNF and transported in chilled vans for Pasteurization and processing which includes preparation of Value Added Products & making milk sachets to store them in cold storages and distributed in cold vans in a Organized manner!

12 Agenda Indias Agricultural Scenario Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story Issues in Replicating ANAND Success Case Story to Agriculture Storage & Transportation Technologies Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots Way Forward

13 Issues in Replicating ANAND Success Case Story to Agriculture On scrutiny by GISPL/ AKC on why this excellent model can not be replicated for Agriculture Produce, it is observed that the major bottleneck is in establishing the Unorganized - Organized interface equivalent of the Milk Testing & Collection Centres for the 400 crops which are cultivated randomly to some extent by the farmers. Grading & Sorting and Quality Identification & Aggregation becomes a Challenge with fragmented uncontrolled current farming.

14 Issues in Replicating ANAND Success Case Story to Agriculture Coupled with this, we also have different optimum temperature & humidity levels for each of the agriculture produce. Handling & Transportation and associated Wastages also become important, especially in case of F&V items. Due to these factors, it may be interesting to know that the current 5400 storage facilities in the country with a capacity of million MT which is about 9% of Food Production are partially utilized! Issues in Replicating Success Case Story to Agriculture

15 Agenda Indias Agricultural Scenario Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story Issues in Replicating ANAND Success Case Story to Agriculture Storage & Transportation Technologies Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots Way Forward

16 Storage & Transportation Technologies Storage Technologies: Warehouses, Godowns, Silos Cold Storages with Multiple Chambers Controlled Atmosphere Units Vacuum Technologies Open Yards (Risky) It is observed that the current technologies for Cold Storages is not optimized for Energy Needs and use about 40% more energy. CA units, which involve pumping out oxygen and inserting some inert gas like nitrogen are slowly entering Indian Markets

17 Storage & Transportation Technologies Transportation : India lacks Cold vans/ carriages for long haul of Agriculture Produce, especially F&V, Meat Products, Fish & Sea Foods, Eggs etc Coupled with this shortage is the bad infrastructure in terms of Roads etc. The situation however is improving with improvements and Innovations for Indian Needs

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vQm: optimum protection Once your food is insect free.. How to preserve it? vQm Packaging A unique vacuum packaging system for large volumes. - no re-infestation - no mould or funghi growth - extended shelf-life - not exposed to external environment

22 Agenda Indias Agricultural Scenario Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story Issues in Replicating ANAND Success Case Story to Agriculture Storage & Transportation Technologies Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots Way Forward

23 Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models India has its own typical challenges which needs to be addressed to exploit its natural Agro Climatic & Soil advantages with a capability to produce 400 crops! Erratic Power Supply & Poor Road Conditions Fragmented Farms & Agriculture Cooling Facilities & Refrigeration Capital & Subsidy Schemes MIS & Sensing Technologies

24 Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models GISPL/AKC have studied the existing Cold Storages and find that they can be optimized to consume 40% less Energy thru Micro Processor based Intelligent Cooling with some structural changes GISPL recommends use of Solar Power Plants to run these Optimized Cold Storages GISPL has identified Transport Vans with Zero energy cooling for transportation

25 Agenda Indias Agricultural Scenario Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story Issues in Replicating ANAND Success Case Story to Agriculture Storage & Transportation Technologies Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots Way Forward

26 Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots GISPL has done several Pilots including Automatic Vehicle Tracking using GPS Automatic Vehicle Tracking using GPRS RFID for Automatic Stock Identification & movement from Warehouses Chipless RFID for Packaging & automatic sensing RFID technologies can further be modified for Produce specific automatic sensing & identification

27 Agenda Indias Agricultural Scenario Linking Unorganized to Organized – Indian Success Case Story Issues in Replicating ANAND Success Case Story to Agriculture Storage & Transportation Technologies Indian Centric Challenges & Suggested Solution Models Track & Trace Technologies & GISPL Pilots Way Forward

28 Way Forward With individual small farmers quitting agriculture due to it becoming economically unviable, GISPL is trying a Hub & Spoke Model as follows Educated Tech Savvy people entering the arena with Good Farm Management & GAP in Panchayats surrounding Mandals Establish Solar Powered Irrigation Pumps/ Moisture Conservation Methods

29 Way Forward Produce High Quality Produce as per the Agro Climatic/ Soil/ Water support Establish Optimized Cold Storages powered by Solar Plants thereby setting up smaller capacity plants in the Mandals for Scale Of Operations & Aggregation Forward Link with Retail Chains / Processors Use Sensing Technologies for Tracing & Tracking Real Time Manage thru Mobile based Monitoring Systems

30 Q & A

DSK RAO Director, Gyantech Information Systems Private Limited (GISPL) Hyderabad Cell: Thank You