Like every living being, the basic need of humans is nutrition. The secret of developing countries that stand out with their quality of life to ensure food security is that they have completed their cold chain infrastructure and developed a culture of storing the food they produce. When we look at the food pyramid that shows the foods consumed by humans, the connection between cold chain and food security will be more easily understood.
At the bottom of the food pyramid are flour products made from grains such as rice and pasta, vegetables and fruits are above them, and above them are our protein sources, meat, fish, chicken and dairy products. At the top of the pyramid are the least consumed fats and sugars. When we examine carefully, we see that 70% of the foods in the food pyramid go through cold storage.
TünelGroup and Food Security: A Three-Dimensional Approach
Food security has three dimensions. First, ensuring the continuous supply of food, second, that food prices are affordable, and third, that food is healthy. Only when we have access to continuous, cheap, and healthy food can we say that we have achieved food security. Food must be sold at reasonable prices throughout the year and in every region of the country. This necessitates strategic planning to store the food produced until it is consumed.
There are two major problems in developing countries' ability to establish a cold chain. The first problem is related to infrastructure. Developing countries do not have cold storage facilities of sufficient volume and number and refrigerated vehicles to transport between them. The second problem is related to food storage culture. Food producing countries need to learn and implement the culture of storing food correctly. It should not be forgotten that in order to sell food that requires a cold chain to another city or country, a cold chain must be established in that region.
TünelGroup's Cold Storage: Fundamental Elements of Food Security
There are two basic elements of the cold chain that ensures that food reaches you safely. Cold storages are basically similar to each other. They consist of rooms of various sizes with adjustable temperatures and heat insulation. They also house administrative and technical offices. With the cold storage solutions it offers in this area, TünelGroup ensures that producers preserve their food in the best way possible, thus making significant contributions to food security.
The warehouses have cooling systems, large sliding doors that allow entry and exit to the cold storage, scales used to weigh incoming and outgoing products, ramps and bellows where loading is done. Just as separate storage should be built for each food produced, there is also a need for central city storages where the stored food will be distributed to meet the food needs of the city. These storages are of great importance for the food security of the city. In principle, for cities without cold storage, a cold storage of 10 thousand tons for every 1 million people can meet the urgent need.
TünelGroup's Food Centers: Safe and Continuous Food Supply
If you have land and budget, you can create a better solution for food security than city warehouses. This solution is food centers where food producers and food warehouses are brought together. All medium and small-scale food producers and warehouses that provide food to the food pyramid should be located collectively in food centers. This food center should be designed in a way that allows for expansion. Thanks to the large storage areas in this facility, food supply becomes continuous and the price of food is more affordable.
These food centers provided by TünelGroup can be a guarantee of food security in developing countries. The payback period of no cold storage investment exceeds 4 years. While cold chain investment is extremely profitable, it can also be considered as a social investment due to its contribution to food security in the country.
Our Future is Safe with TünelGroup
As TünelGroup, we believe that continuous access to healthy food, which is the most basic need and right of humans, should no longer be a problem. We dream of a much better future where every child on earth will have enough nutrition and there will be no risk of hunger. Because we know that a better future is in our hands. As long as we take care of our food and use our energy correctly.
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