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With introduction of Dutch technology in cold storage that started recently in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand, there has come a sigh of relief for apple-growers in the hill state.
"The technology called controlled atmospheric cold storage has been provided by a Dutch company called Van Amerongen," Laxmi Prakash Semwal, director, Sri Jagadamba Samiti, a local NGO, informed FnB News in a chat over telephone.
Semwal said that around Rs 15.5 crore had been invested by Stiching Het Groene Woundt (SHGW), a Dutch foundation for the benefit of small farmers in Uttarakhand adding that around 30 per cent of the crops were being wasted near the farms and in order to reduce the wastages, a cold storage was set up for the first time in the state, under the apple project.
Elaborating on the advantages of the technology, he said that farmers could keep the apples fresh for 10 months from the day they brought the fruit from their farms and keep them fresh till they sold the fruit in the market. He then said that the framers could now sell the fruit directly to the market and get their full returns for the same. Further, he mentioned that the technology had the capability of preserving the apples from rotting and decaying.
According to reports, nearly 60 metric tonnes of apples had arrived in the cold storage which would be sold at later stages as it had the capacity to store nearly 1,000 metric tonnes of apples for nearly nine months and that around 200-300 tons of apples would be procured for the storage, this year.
"Farmers are getting a price of Rs 50-55 per kg now against the market price of Rs 80-100 per kg, and this is being seen as an immediate 20 to 30 per cent jump in the prices," Semwal said.
Regarding the procurement of apples, he said that there had been a decline of around 70 per cent in the apple procurement this season, due to the climatic changes and had affected apple-growers, this year.
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