period of marketing, avoiding over capacity, reducing transport bottlenecks during peak period of production and maintenance of quality of produce. The development of cold chain industry has an important role to play in
reducing the wastages of the perishable commodities and thus providing remunerative prices
to the growers. Also, it acts like a backbone for pharma industry and helps to maintain the
efficacy of the drug throughout the supply chain by providing temperature controlled
environment to sensitive pharma products.