CONCOR’s Centre for Perishable Cargo at Kela Godown, New Sabzi Mandi, Azadpur, having 12 fruit ripening chambers with capacity of 240 MT of fruit ripening, 200 MT of cold storage and three banana washing tanks which was inaugurated by Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, Union Minster of Railways, few months ago, is now fully operational and fruit ripening chambers are fully utilised.
The company has taken the initiative to provide health hazard free fruit by using safe and worldwide accepted method of fruit ripening by using ethylene gas, a natural plant hormone for ripening, when done under controlled temperature and relative humidity conditions.
Cold storage chambers of 200MT are equipped with automatic temperature and humidity controls and air purification systems and will be available to farmers/traders for short term storage of fresh fruits and vegetables to avoid distress sale. Farmers can take out their produce when prices are favorable in the wholesale market.