At a time when crashing prices of Onions and Potatoes’s and the resulting farmer distress has highlighted the dire need for more storage, comes this story of Biomass powered cold storage in Maharashtra, that is provising a vital cash line to farmers in the state’s Ahmednagar district.
Lemon growers farmers of Jamkhed Block, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra. Jamkhed block, considered as one of the drought prone geography used to have a tough time maximising opportunities from their lemon crop. Various pulses (Red Gram, Urad, Chana etc), Vegetable and Lemon are the key crops grown in this geography. In recent decades lemons have become the backbone of these area’s farmers. Nowadays farmers are saying Lemon crop as ATM (Any time money) – Means on a daily basis harvest from field and sell at market and earn. Lemon is the major income source for majority farming families and dependent labor communities.
In the traditional format the harvested produce is sold at the village or nearby market place to the trader; most of the farmers give harvested lemon to the trader at farm only. In this process the farmer doesn’t have negotiation power at all; whatever rate the market is offering is needed to accept.
Situations like heavy raining, sudden weather change etc results in food losses and ultimately losses. In the local area no cold storage resources are available, cold storages located at Ahmednagar town offering rental services but were not affordable to common farmers considering the net realisations.
A firm caalled New Leaf Dynamic Technologies Pvt. Ltd, in association with Powering Livelihoods- program jointly run by the Council On Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) and Villgro Innovations Foundation came up with an alternative. It solved the key challenge of affordability, that Farmer producer companies who were looking for in Cold Storage solution for Lemon & other agri commodities. Biomass Powered Cold Storage units were deployed at this cluster.
Currently two Farmer Producer Companies have adopted units and serve more than 750 shareholders members and other farmers. Also, one of the individual entrepreneurs has adopted technology which offers better prices for local farmers. Farmers have adopted these technology with key rational –
Lemon Crop Overview
Brief about New Leaf Dynamic Technologies & Product
New Leaf Dynamic Technologies has innovated GreenCHILL™ – biomass powered cold storage for safe storage of perishable produce in cold rooms using biomass/farm waste.
GreenCHILL™ – a decentralized, multipurpose cold room in the capacity 15MT, 20MT and its capabilities of temperature range of +2 deg to +25 dec C enables long cold storage (up to 12 weeks), pre-cooling (5,000 kilogram per batch), ripening and natural dehydration.
Impact at Glance:
Product Brief:
GreenCHILL uses Biomass (50 – 100 kgs per day) or Biogas as energy source to power an Ammonia refrigeration cycle.
Support Provided by New leaf to farmers:
Impact:
Same cycle will repeat till Summer ends.
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