Ahmedabad based business tycoon Mr Chandrakant Patel, Chairman and Managing Director of Ice Make Refrigeration Ltd has been featured as one of the top “Entrepreneurs of Gujarat 2019” in a special edition & exclusive coffee table book “Estrellas”, published by   Divya Bhasker, one of the leading Gujarati daily news publication. Mr Patel, a first generation Entrepreneur, is the founding member and promoter director of Ice Make Refrigeration Limited, one of the leading manufacturer & supplier of cooling solutions products and equipments in India. Commenting on the recognition he  said “It’s a great moment for all of us at ICE Make to have got this personal accolade. This has come truly at a time when the Company is at the cusp of accelerated growth and consistently delivering strong performance and stakeholder’s value. As a fast emerging company Ice Make has established strong credentials in the market among our clients, customers and industry peers. The culture wit

“The govt. needs to direct 10-15% budgetary allocation towards storage of produce and cold chain logistic” Mr Chandrakant Patel, CMD, Ice Make Refrigeration Limited urged the Finance Minister Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman to direct at least 10-15% of the budgetary allocation towards developing an effective ecosystem for proper storage of produce and cold chain infrastructure. India is short by 25 million tonnes of cold storage capacity and over 60,000 refrigerated trucks and there is an urgent need to fill this huge capacity gap. He says “The government needs to do a lot more to fuel agricultural growth and treat the root cause behind India’s poverty and urban rural divide. The main challenge is providing skills and economic opportunity to rural India.  India needs to save nearly Rs l lakh crore of nation’s money which is lost due to wastage of produce, by building proper storage capacities.   Proper storage facilities can help agriculture and allied activities be lucrative a