Supply Chain Management for Fruits, Vegetables and other perishables in 10 Districts of Tamil Nadu.

With a vision of integrating and strengthening the supply chain of fruits and vegetables in the State, Tamil Nadu Supply Chain Management Project (TNSCM), first of its kind in Tamil Nadu was implemented in 10 Districts viz., Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Coimbatore, The Nilgiris, Tiruchirapalli, Dindigul, Theni, Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli (undivided district) at a total cost of Rs.482.36 Crore. 

The project aims to

Provide integrated and complete supply chain management and infrastructure.

Provide necessary support for market integration with major market centers, processors and consumers and

Reduce post-harvest losses of fruits, vegetables and other perishables,

Ensure remunerative price to the farmers,

Bring in other stakeholders to make them part of the supply chain and

expand outreach benefitting the farming community.

64 Primary Processing Centres with  Post harvest infrastructure facilities such as Pack house,  Cold storage, Storage Godowns etc are equipped with State of the art facility for cleaning, washing,  sorting, grading, packing and forward transactions using single/multiple vegetable or fruit process lines. Also modern infrastructure like APEDA pack house, IQF facilities, Hot water/ Vapour Heat Treatment unit, Irradiation unit created in some of the PPCs will form the basis for acessess of export facility by farmers of Tamilnadu and promote export of Fruits and Vegetables.

The Primary Processing Centres are operationalised through Farmer Producer Organisations who are selected as Market Integration Partners.

In the first phase, Work order was issued to 13 FPOs selected as Market Integration Partner for operationalisation of   25 PPCs by Hon’ble Chief Minister and the PPCs are being operationalised by these FPOs. Further, work orders have been issued to 12 FPOs who have been selected as Market Integration Partner for operationalisation of 17 PPCs. Ooty Rose Garden PPC is operationalised by the Department of Horticulture and Plantation Crops and 5 PPCs located in Agricultural Producers Cooperative Marketing Society are operationalised by Cooperatives Department. Action is being taken for operationalisation of all PPCs.  Works are under progress for four additional PPCs.

Extension of Supply Chain Management project to another                         8 Districts (Salem, Erode, Tiruvallur, Kancheepuram, Tiruvannamalai, Cuddalore, Villupuram and Karur) proposed with a total financial outlay of Rs.102.47 crore with Warehouse Infrastructure Fund of NABARD in order to benefit the farmers. 20 Primary Processing Centres with post harvest infrastructure facilities such as grading and packing hall, machineries for primary processing of focus crops, cold storage, ripening chamber etc will be established under Phase II of Supply Chain Management Project.