BCL Cold Storage Limited
- Noudapara, Rangpur road,
- Bogra-5800.
BCL Cold Storage Limited
BCL Cold Storage began as a small project in 2014. It set up operations in Nawdapara, Gokul, Bogura in North Bengal because of its easy accessibility by land and water, and started out by giving the farmers loans to use BCL’s cold storage facilities. The loans cover a maximum of 50-60 percent of the farmers’ storage costs. As BCL Cold Storage allowed these farmers to keep their products fresh for longer, enabling them to sell more of their potato over a longer time, many became financially independent and no longer needed loans in order to store their potato, so the project started operating like a profitable enterprise.
Helping Potato Farmers
Originally, the enterprise had intended to provide reliable cold storage to Vegetable farmers, as well as traders with leftover produce. However, since fruits & Vegetables require very particular, costly preservation processes, BCL Cold Storage soon limited its storage facility to potato farmers only. BCL Cold Storage has for the capacity to store 2,00,000 bags of potatoes, each bag holding approximately 80 kilograms. BRAC Cold Storage is different from other cold storage facilities because of the quality of service it provides. BCL Cold Storage has plans to further expand its storage facility in All over the Bangladesh and continue to serve potato farmers. Also It has created job opportunities in different categories.