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D-cold-chain Dictionary

Cold Chain

An unbroken sequence of refrigerated handling from harvest to buyer

All termsIntroduced in Module 5Open the Toolkit
An open dictionary on a farm office desk
Plain meaning
An unbroken sequence of refrigerated handling from harvest to buyer
How to use it
For perishable produce, plan cooling at harvest, refrigerated transport and cold storage before planting. Without them, the price falls with every hour.
South African benchmark
South Africa's export fruit industry runs a full cold chain from pack-house to port.
Country notes
Cold storage and refrigerated transport are scarce and expensive in parts of all four local markets, and power cuts break the chain.
Go and read
C5 Lesson 5.2, C8 Lesson 8.1, M4-U2
Calculate it
T-C-05 Delivered Cost Calculator
Library sources
LIB-A025, LIB-A057, LIB-A070, LIB-A088
See also
Pre-cooling, Reefer, Post-harvest loss
Five linked cold-chain steps from picking to shelfCold chainPickPre-coolReeferStoreShelfAn unbroken run of cold from pack-house to shelf. One warm gap spoils the load.
Cold chain, shown as a diagram.

Introduced in C5 Logistics and Cold Chain.