India badly needs an energy-efficient cold chain to cover all, or at least most, parts of the country to make agriculture more remunerative and sustainable by maximising the return for the farmer, according to Vikram Murthy, the president of the Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE).
He was speaking here on Friday on the occasion of the three-day meet of the society which began on Thursday. He said the challenge was “to build a cold chain without contributing to global warming and to that appropriate refrigerants and technologies have to be used. We as a society are assisting the Government in the endeavour.”
