Industry Visit

On
DG COLDSTORAGE PVT.LTD

~BY
SHILPITA BOSE
Masters Of Business Administration
ROLL NO. : VU/PG/503/23/09/04-15-0716
VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY
 Objectives
• An industry visit is an educational opportunity
for students, professionals, and other
individuals to visit a company or organisation
and learn about its operations, products,
services, and culture. Industry visits are
usually organised by educational institutions,
training programs, or professional
associations to provide us with real world
exposure to various businesses.
• An industry visit is an educational opportunity for students,
professionals, and other individuals to visit a company or organisation
and learn about its operations, products, services, and culture. Industry
visits are usually organised by educational institutions, training
programs, or professional associations to provide us with real world
exposure to various businesses.
• During an industry visit students can interact with employees,
managers and others take holders tour facilities observe processes and
learn about the organisations history, mission, and vision. Industry
visits provide students an opportunity to see how theoretical concepts
and classroom knowledge translate into practical application in the real
world.
 Company Profile

D. G. Cold Storage Private Limited is a private incorporated on 24th January 2001. It is

classified as non government company and is registered at registrar of companies
Kolkata. It is involved in freezing and storing of potatoes. Directors of DG called storage
private limited are Sampa Bose Trivedi and Rahul Chakraborty. It has a total area of
7.36 acre. It has 3chambers, 5 floors in each chamber and 6 lifts to carry the potato
bags up to 5th floor. It has a total capacity of 450,000 packets where as each packet
hold 50 kg potatoes.
 Core functions of the industry
• Harvest: In India Harvesting of potatoes are usually done at the end of February ,in
a substantial amount. India is the 2nd largest producer of potato in the world.
• Weight: Farmers or traders post harvesting pack their potatoes in wide-meshed
bags/perforrated plastic bags . Each bag weights 50 kg.
• Transport: Potato Sacks each weighing 50 kg are then loaded in tractors, motor
vans and trucks and transported to nearby cold storages.
• Bonds: In the potato cold storage the potato socks are carried to a wide open clean
space inside the cold storage premises called ‘Shade’ where the farmers or traders
are provided with bonds or challan to safeguard their potato sacks inside the coal
storage chambers.
• Conveyor belt: A cool storage chamber usually has five floors. From the shade cold
storage labourerss carry these bagged potato sacks to the conveyor belt. Conveyor
belt moves the 50 kg sacks to their destination floor one by one by one.
 Core functions of the industry cont…
Chamber loading: From the conveyor belt the
laborers again carry these sacks over their
heads inside the pre cooled(at 35 degrees
Fahrenheit )storage chambers and arrange
them in bamboo racks or shelf accordingly to
their bond numbers.

Chamber Maintenance: Cold storage chambers

are equipped with the equipments to control the
temperature, relative humidity, and air circulation
to maintain the best storage conditions. This
means the potato produce not only appears fresh
from the outside but is also healthy from the
inside.
 Unloading
• Unloading period: Unloading
or depleting of stored potatoes
begins from may until the end
of the storage season usually
November.

• Bonds and unloading: Farmers

or traders interested in depleting
the stored potatoes reaches the
store premises which there
bonds. Cold storage sardars after
scrutinizing their bond numbers
fetches their potato sacks and
brings them to the shade.

• Drying: a shade contains around 30-35 ceiling fans. In the presence of the farmers
or traders, their potatoes are taken out of the sacks and are laid down on the floor
under the fans for drying.
 Unloading cont…
• Sorting: Sorting of potatoes refer to removal of rotten, diseased infected and cut
potatoes. After drying, sorting or done in the shade.
• Grading: Grading of potatoes refer to categorization of potatoes based on their
variety, size and shape.
After drying and sorting grading are also done in the shade. Then there good looking,
fresh, healthy potatoes and again packed into 50 kg sacks are transported to retailers.
All ready for our consumption.
 FLOWCHART
Harvest Unloading
of
LOADING,
Bonds are UNLOADING
Transport shown

Numbering/Bonds Unloaded from

chambers Drying

Labour
Loading Quality
Packed
Check
Separately

Freezing
Grading Transported
 ESG Goals of Cold storage

Environment
• Reducing Carbon emissions
• Reducing green house gas emission
• Make natural ventitation designs

Social responsibilities towards workers

• Provide fair enumeration, wages, allowances.
• Provide PF, gratuity, pensions, old age schemes.
• Staff education, teach modern technologies
• .Provide proper sanitation and hygiene.
• Provide good fooding and lodging.Teach them temperature, monitoring, inventory
control.
• Provide first aid, other medical facilities.
• No access workload.
• Provide safe working conditions.
 ESG Goals of Cold storage cont…..
Social responsibilities towards customers
• Daily check the ammonia gas leakage in the control room as it is very harmful in
human breathing.
• To keep a check that potatoes are not coloured.
• To keep an eye on the weights of potatoes doing unloading . So that is no shortage in
the weights.
• Diseased potatoes are to be thrown away.

Governance
• Taxes are to be paid regularly.
• Date of opening & closing of cold
storages should be maintained.
• Routine pollution check should be done.
• Ethical business decision making.
 Overall Learning from the Visit
A visit to D G Cold Storage private limited can provide attendees these with a wealth of
information about the company and the coal storage industry. Some of the key learning
from an industry visit to DG coal storage PVT LT can include:
• Understanding of freezing and storing process of table potatoes and seed potatoes.
• Knowledge of the potato cold storage industry, understanding of potato cold storage
industry, including market trends competition ant future prospects.
• Exposure to best practices: an industries can provide an opportunity to observe and
learn from these best practices.
• Building professional connections: An industry can provide opportunities to meet
with industry professionals and build relationships for future collaboration.
• Hands- on learning experience: Industry visits offer hands on learning experience
that can help attend these apply their knowledge and skills in real world settings.
• Improved decision making: Industry visit provide access to information that can help
attend these make informed decisions about their careers or business Ventures.
THANK YOU!!