Supply chain management of vegetables-a review

India is the second largest producers of vegetables in the world and also exports many vegetables, but share is only 1% percent of worldwide. India can increase its export share if cost-effective and efficient supply chain is developed. Present supply chain of fresh vegetables has the higher number of intermediaries and at each stage there is no proper supply chain exists between the stakeholders, causes loss of vegetables. The prevailing supply chain of vegetables is lack of packaging techniques, infrastructure, unavailability of cooled packaging houses and transportation. Refrigeration is well established technology for supply of high valued products, but the same cannot be use for vegetables. The reasons are many but most is uncertainty in return. The supply chain of vegetable is characteristically complex and complicated due to its characteristics. In the chain the number of intermediaries is high, thus the wastage and transaction cost is also high. Vegetables supply chain can be made efficient by improving cold chain facilities using evaporative cooling type low-cost technology. Creation of proper vegetable supply chain system will benefit farmers, vegetable vendors with assured of quality products at a competitive price to consumers. In this paper an effort has been made to highlight the importance, hindrance, need and available of cooling technologies in development of cool chain of vegetables.