What is cold chain logistics of agricultural products?

Cold chain logistics of agricultural products generally refers to a systematic project that fruits, vegetables, meat and other items are always in a prescribed low-temperature environment before production, storage, transportation, sales and consumption to ensure the quality and performance of the items. It consists of four aspects: frozen processing, frozen storage, refrigerated transportation and distribution, and frozen sales. Cold chain logistics needs to comprehensively consider various factors such as production, transportation, sales, economy and technology, and coordinate their relationships to ensure the preservation and appreciation of perishable fresh food in the process of processing, transportation and sales. The food range of cold chain includes vegetables, meat, aquatic products, dairy products and quick-frozen foods.

Three characteristics of cold chain logistics of agricultural products;

1, the construction investment is large and the system is huge and complex. Because food cold chain is a supply chain system with the aim of ensuring the quality of perishable food and keeping the low temperature environment as its core requirement, it is higher and more complicated than the general normal temperature logistics system, and the construction investment is much larger, so it is a huge systematic project.

2. timeliness. Each link is required to have high organizational coordination. Due to the timeliness of perishable food, all links in the cold chain system are required to have high organization and coordination, so the operation of food cold chain is always related to energy consumption cost, and effective control of operation cost is closely related to the development of food cold chain.

3. High quality and nature. In order to ensure that fresh fruits and vegetables are always under the specified low temperature conditions in all aspects of circulation, it is necessary to install temperature control equipment, use refrigerated trucks or low-temperature warehouses and adopt advanced information systems. The cost of cold chain logistics of agricultural products is higher than other logistics systems.