As per All India Cold Storage Capacity and Technology – Base line Survey (10.12.2014) conducted by M/s Hansa Research Group, commissioned by National Horticulture Board (NHB) under Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, 75% of the total cold storage capacity in the country was used for the purpose of storage of horticulture crops including potato. Out of total production of potatoes in the country, 75% was stored in cold storages for long term storage at farm gate. Further, 95% of cold storages in the country were owned by private sector, 3% by cooperatives and remaining 2% were under Public Sector Undertakings.
As per the information available as on 31.03.2017, there were 7645 cold storages with a capacity of 34.95 million MT in the country. The State wise and agencies wise details are as follows:
State wise & Agency wise distribution of Cold Storage as on 31.03.2017:
| Upto 2009* | 2009-10 to 2016-17 | ||||||||||
| Name of the State | NHB | NHM | MoFPI | Total | |||||||
| No | Capacity (MT) | No. | Capacity (MT) | No. | Capacity (MT) | No. | Capacity (MT) | No. | Capacity (MT) | ||
| 1 | Andaman & Nicobar Islands (UT) | 2 | 210 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 600 | 3 | 810 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh & Telangana | 290 | 900606 | 36 | 220158 | 101 | 619021 | 15 | 42776 | 442 | 1782561 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 5000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1000 | 2 | 6000 |
| 4 | Assam | 24 | 88068 | 10 | 61738 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8100 | 36 | 157906 |
| 5 | Bihar | 246 | 1147041 | 28 | 111821 | 29 | 153233 | 3 | 3500 | 306 | 1415595 |
| 6 | Chandigarh (UT) | 6 | 12216 | 1 | 246 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 12462 |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 69 | 341885 | 14 | 68323 | 13 | 65349 | 2 | 8530 | 98 | 484087 |
| 8 | Delhi | 95 | 126158 | 2 | 3699 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 129857 |
| 9 | Goa | 29 | 7705 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 7705 |
| 10 | Gujarat | 398 | 1267304 | 50 | 169199 | 295 | 1419209 | 21 | 46095 | 764 | 2901807 |
| 11 | Haryana | 244 | 393121 | 39 | 147816 | 45 | 152509 | 10 | 56384 | 338 | 749830 |
| 12 | Himachal Pradesh | 18 | 19858 | 7 | 20504 | 29 | 54805 | 12 | 35850 | 66 | 131017 |
| 13 | Jammu & Kashmir | 19 | 42869 | 6 | 24630 | 7 | 37707 | 6 | 7310 | 38 | 112516 |
| 14 | Jharkhand | 45 | 170148 | 8 | 36757 | 5 | 29775 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 236680 |
| 15 | Karnataka | 170 | 407165 | 8 | 78844 | 12 | 49392 | 8 | 24777 | 198 | 560178 |
| 16 | Kerala | 193 | 58105 | 1 | 5000 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17300 | 198 | 80405 |
| 17 | Lakshadweep (UT) | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| 18 | Madhya Pradesh | 197 | 808052 | 22 | 114580 | 71 | 320083 | 10 | 20950 | 300 | 1263665 |
| 19 | Maharashtra | 466 | 546748 | 30 | 106860 | 58 | 151122 | 50 | 173662 | 604 | 978392 |
| 20 | Manipur | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5500 | 2 | 5500 |
| 21 | Meghalaya | 3 | 3200 | 1 | 5000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8200 |
| 22 | Mizoram | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3471 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 530 | 3 | 4001 |
| 23 | Nagaland | 2 | 6150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1200 | 4 | 7350 |
| 24 | Orissa | 101 | 291039 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 247100 | 2 | 2002 | 171 | 540141 |
| 25 | Pondicherry (UT) | 3 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 85 |
| 26 | Punjab | 422 | 1345193 | 55 | 176908 | 166 | 584902 | 17 | 48701 | 660 | 2155704 |
| 27 | Rajasthan | 110 | 324226 | 26 | 98907 | 21 | 88760 | 9 | 43385 | 166 | 555278 |
| 28 | Sikkim | 1 | 2000 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2100 |
| 29 | Tamil Nadu | 148 | 238536 | 16 | 65047 | 1 | 6000 | 9 | 28042 | 174 | 337625 |
| 30 | Tripura | 11 | 29450 | 3 | 16027 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 45477 |
| 31 | Uttar Pradesh | 1589 | 10118000 | 503 | 2975267 | 184 | 1016530 | 23 | 66265 | 2299 | 14176062 |
| 32 | Uttrakhand | 15 | 68499 | 5 | 9272 | 10 | 21650 | 16 | 60998 | 46 | 160419 |
| 33 | West Bengal | 463 | 5682000 | 14 | 47812 | 26 | 153699 | 9 | 64050 | 512 | 5947561 |
| Total | 5381 | 24450652 | 886 | 4567886 | 1142 | 5170946 | 236 | 767507 | 7645 | 34956991 | |
(Source: Directorate of Marketing and Inspection (DMI) upto 2009, National Horticulture Board (NHB), National Horticulture Mission (NHM) & Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI)
This information was given by the Minister of Food Processing Industries Ms. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha
