Coldhubs are solar powered walk in cold rooms installed in markets and farm coops to store and preserve fruits vegetables and other perishable foods 24 7 and extend their shelf life from 2 days to 21 days for small farmers retailers and wholesalers.
Solar powered cold room nigeria.
But food loss continues to plague the sector.
Our innovation coldhubs is a plug and play modular solar powered walk in cold room for 24 7 off grid storage and preservation of perishable foods.
The solar powered walk in cold room is made of 120mm insulating cold room panels to retain the low temperature.
With coldhubs entrepreneur nnaemeka ikegwuonu is building and operating walk in cold rooms that may help nigerian farmers and vendors to store and preserve produce better.
Freecold solar cold room.
Modular in design they are available in standardized sizes from 10 to 20 m 3 tailor made projects are also possible such as the freecold cold room at cotonou airport benin which is capable of refrigerating 12 metric tons of pineapple every day on over 100 m 3.
Freecold markets positive cold rooms powered by photovoltaic solar panels.
Energy from solar panels mounted on the roof top of the cold room are stored in high capacity batteries which feed an inverter which in turn feeds the refrigerating unit.
Food and agriculture organization fao agriculture employs two thirds of the entire labor force in the country.
Food security in nigeria.