Total number of cold storages in the country are:
| Sl. No. | Name of State | No. of Cold Storages |
| 1. | Andaman & Nicobar | 11 |
| 2. | Andhra Pradesh | 645 |
| 3 | Assam | 24 |
| 4 | Bihar | 170 |
| 5 | Chandigarh | 5 |
| 6 | Chhattisgarh | 82 |
| 7 | Delhi | 45 |
| 8 | Goa | 16 |
| 9 | Gujarat | 432 |
| 10 | Haryana | 206 |
| 11 | Himachal Pradesh | 17 |
| 12 | Jammu & Kashmir | 18 |
| 13 | Jharkhand | 20 |
| 14 | Karnataka | 205 |
| 15 | Kerala | 158 |
| 16 | Madhya Pradesh | 164 |
| 17 | Maharashtra | 532 |
| 18 | Orissa | 45 |
| 19 | Pondicherry | 9 |
| 20 | Punjab | 425 |
| 21 | Uttaranchal | 14 |
| 22 | Uttar Pradesh | 1385 |
| 23 | West Bengal | 498 |
| 24 | Tamil Nadu | 115 |
| 25 | Rajasthan | 109 |
| 26 | Other North Eastern States | 17 |
| T O T A L | 5367 |
Shortage of Cold Storage and its Impact:
The Government has got a study done on “Assessment of Quantitative Harvest and Post-Harvest Losses of Major Crops and Commodities in India” by ICAR – Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), Ludhiana.
The study was commissioned in 2012 and the final report submitted on 31.03.2015. The study has estimated that annual value of harvest and post-harvest losses of major agricultural produces at national level was of the order of Rs. 92,651 crore calculated using production data of 2012-13 at 2014 wholesale prices.
Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare under Component of Sub-Mission on Agricultural Extension (SAME) provide support to State Extension Programmes for Extension Reforms.
This Programme is under implementation in 652 rural districts of 29 States & 3 UTs across the country and provides training, information and extension support to farmers through trainings, exposure visits, demonstrations, study tours, farm schools etc.
Through above interactions, farmers are educated on aspects of agriculture including improved methods of storage.
This Scheme has recently been revised to include manpower support; roping in the farmers’ feed back in to planning by setting up Farmer Advisory Committees (FACs) at Block/ District & State Level and providing farmer-to-farmer learning and extension support through Farmer Friend.
The Modified Scheme has dedicated Specialists & Functionary Support at State (2 per State), District (5 per district) & Block level (4 per Block).
In order to arrest post-harvest losses of horticulture & non-horticulture produce and to provide integrated cold chain and preservation infrastructure facilities from the farm gate to the consumer or from the production site to the market,Ministry of Food Processing Industries is implementing the Central Sector Scheme of Cold Chain, Value Addition and Preservation Infrastructure
Under the scheme, financial assistance is provided in the form of grant-in-aid of maximum Rs10 Crore per project for setting up of integrated cold chain and preservation infrastructure facilities.
The Integrated cold chain and preservation infrastructure can be set up by individuals, groups of entrepreneurs, cooperative societies, Self Help Groups (SHGs), Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), NGOs, Central/State PSUs, etc.
The scheme is primarily private sector driven and proposals under this scheme are invited through Expression of Interest (EOI).
In addition, Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture(MIDH) and National Horticulture Board (NHB), under Department of Agriculture, Cooperation& Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture& Farmers Welfare are also providing assistance for setting up cold storages under their respective schemes., the proposals under MIDH scheme are accepted round the year.
These schemes are demand driven from entrepreneurs, private companies, co-operatives, farmers groups, self-help groups, etc for which assistance in the form of grant-in-aid/subsidy is provided by the Government.