Cold chains are essential for extending the shelf life, 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.