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Modern food grain storage facility at Moga

Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: Punjab crossed a major milestone in post-harvest technologies when the Food Corporation of India commissioned the first state-of-the-art food grain storage and handling facility in the country at Moga on Tuesday.

According to a spokesperson of Adani Agri Logistics Limited (AALL), a member of the multi-crore Adani Group, these facilities are being set up initially for two circuits. The first circuit consists of Moga, Chennai, Coimbatore and Bangalore, while the second would include Kaithal, Navi Mumbai, Hoogly.

While the first base depot at Moga, which is spread over 42 acres, was commissioned ahead of schedule by FCI Chairman and Managing Director Alok Sinha, the other facility in the region has been set up at Kaithal on 32 acres. Both the facilities would have the capacity to process and store 200,000 metric tonnes each.

While the one in Navi Mumabi would handle 50,000 metric tonnes, others in Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore and Hoogly would hold about 25,000 metric tonnes each.

AALL has been engaged by the FCI to set up a state of art food grain storage and handling facility in the country under an exclusive build-own-and-operate (BOO) agreement.

The key feature of the project is that the entire handling of the food grains right from receiving at base depots, quality check-up, cleaning and drying, storage and transportation to field depots is fully computerised and automated. This would ensure long life and minimal wastage of food grains.

The transportation of the stored food grain would be in specially designed covered wagons. The food grain transported from the base depots would be stored at the field depots with similar preservation and storage facilities.

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