a road map for investors in moldovan high value agriculture

3.6 Cold Storage Facilities
Presently, there are over 100 functional agriculture cold storage facilities nationwide with a capacity of
nearly 80,000 tons. Experts estimate this storage capacity is only 10% of what is necessary. Apples
account for over 80% of stored products. Cold storage facilities can be built for both construction use and
agriculture land use. Nevertheless, because only few localities have a City Planning (see example of
Chisinau City Planning at http://www.chisinau.md/doc.php?l=ro&idc=501&id=1004), most cold storage
facilities are built within localities’ built-up areas (on construction use land), which is negative in terms of
locating the storage facilities near the fields.
Building a cold store facility is similar to building a production facility and it relies on obtaining a
Building permit (see Develop Your Site above).
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