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Two more warehouses planned

— Photo: M. Moorthy

all attention: Farmers attending an awareness programme on warehousing organised by the Central Warehousing Corporation at Tiruchi on Tuesday.

TIRUCHI: The Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) is planning to increase the storage capacity of its warehouses in Tamil Nadu and will soon establish new warehouses at Korukupet and Cuddalore, Chennai Regional Manager C.T. Thomas said here on Tuesday.

A warehouse with a capacity of 20,000 tonnes would come up soon at Korukupet in Chennai at a cost of Rs.20 crore.

It was being established under an agreement with the Railways for establishing 22 warehouses across the country.

These warehouses would have a minimum capacity of 15,000 each.

The Railways would provide the land and the CWC, infrastructure. A warehouse was established at Madurai recently.

The corporation also planned to expand its existing warehouses at Virudhunagar and Hosur. “We are looking at the possibility of expanding the capacity of other warehouses, wherever land is available,” Mr.Thomas told reporters on the sidelines of an awareness training programme for farmers on Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act 2007.

The CWC had 37 warehouses under the Chennai region comprising Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with a total capacity of about 7.5 lakh tonnes.

Earlier, speaking at the training programme, Mr. Thomas said the CWC, with 17 subsidiary State Warehousing Corporations, had about 500 warehouses across the country with a capacity of 10 million tonnes. It recently opened warehouses in the Philippines and Uruguay. The Union Department of Food and Public Distribution was in the process of introducing a negotiable warehouse receipt system to make the warehouse receipt a fully negotiable instrument. This would be a boon to farmers.

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