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Data Intelligence Report
Rural Infrastructure and Storage:
RIDF, Grain Godowns and Cold Chains
NABARD’s Rural Infrastructure Development Fund by State and tranche, foodgrain storage capacity (2013–2025), how full the Food Corporation of India’s godowns are, and cold storage capacity (2015–2022).
Sources: NABARD; Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare; Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
RIDF sanctioned, all tranches
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RIDF disbursed
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Foodgrain storage capacity
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FCI godowns in use
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Cold storage capacity
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Map
Hover for all four measures; click a State for its row in the table.
Map: State boundaries from the DataMeet India community (CC BY 4.0), consistent with the official boundary of India as per the Survey of India; simplified for display, not to scale.
Ranking
Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (NABARD)
Sanctioned vs Disbursed, by Tranche
₹ crore (columns) and share disbursed (%, line), as on 31 March 2024
Tranches I to XXIII are closed and shown together (cumulative). Tranches XXIV to XXIX are still disbursing, so newer tranches naturally show lower disbursement. Each new tranche is larger than the last.
Where the Money Went
Top 15 States, ₹ crore, closed and ongoing tranches
Telangana’s figures start from Tranche XX; earlier tranches for the region are counted under Andhra Pradesh.
Foodgrain Storage
Storage Capacity by Zone
FCI (owned and hired) and State agencies, lakh tonnes
Capacity includes hired godowns, so it can rise and fall from year to year (e.g. the drop in 2023).
How Full Are FCI’s Godowns?
FCI capacity and stocks held in March (lakh tonnes) and utilisation (%)
FCI’s own and hired capacity only (Table 97), a subset of the total in the chart on the left. Utilisation fell to 58% in March 2023 and recovered to 84% by March 2025.
Three States Hold Most of It
Share of total foodgrain storage capacity, %
Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana rose from 39% of capacity in 2013 to 63% in 2025, while Uttar Pradesh and undivided Andhra Pradesh’s shares fell.
FCI Utilisation by State
States with at least 1 lakh tonnes of FCI capacity. Bubble size = capacity. Above 100% means stocks exceeded rated capacity that March.
Cold Storage
Cold Storage Capacity
Lakh tonnes, largest States and the rest
Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, the main potato States, hold over half of India’s cold storage. Dates: 31 March for 2015–2019; 31 Dec 2020, 31 Jan 2022 and 30 Nov 2022 for the last three points (labelled 2020, 2021, 2022).
Fastest-Growing Cold Chains
% change in cold storage capacity, 2015 to 2022
States with at least 50,000 tonnes in 2015. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are combined (Telangana is included in Andhra Pradesh until 2019).
State Table
Latest figures · click a heading to sort
RIDF in ₹ crore, all tranches (I–XXIX) as on 31 March 2024. Storage in lakh tonnes. n/a = not available or not covered.
Key Findings
₹5.3 lakh crore for rural works
Across 29 tranches, RIDF has sanctioned ₹5,33,226 crore for about 7.8 lakh projects, and disbursed 78.6% of it. Gujarat (8.1%), Odisha and Madhya Pradesh (7.4% each) received the most.
Grain storage clusters in three States
Foodgrain storage capacity rose from 737 to 872 lakh tonnes (2013–2025). Punjab (26%), Madhya Pradesh (23%) and Haryana (13%) now hold 63% of it; Madhya Pradesh’s capacity more than tripled.
Godowns refilled
FCI’s godowns were only 58% full in March 2023, down from 87% in 2020, but were 84% full again by March 2025, with 386 lakh tonnes in 459 lakh tonnes of capacity.
Cold storage grows slowly
Cold storage capacity grew 17% to 382 lakh tonnes (2015–2022). Uttar Pradesh holds 39% and West Bengal 16%; Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal and Uttarakhand grew fastest from small bases.
Sources: Table 95: NABARD Annual Statistical Statements 2023-24 (RIDF sanctions and disbursements as on 31 March 2024). Table 96: Agricultural Statistics at a Glance and Monthly Foodgrain Bulletin (storage capacity of FCI, owned and hired, and State agencies). Table 97: Monthly Foodgrain Bulletin, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution (FCI capacity and stocks in March each year). Table 98: Agricultural Statistics at a Glance, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare (cold storage). Corrections and notes: in Table 96 for 2020, the values for West Bengal (3.9), Sikkim (19.13) and Jharkhand (0.23) are out of line with every other year and appear to be shifted by one row; they are read as 19.13, 0.23 and 3.9, which leaves the zone total unchanged. In Table 97 for 2022, stocks for Rajasthan, Telangana and Meghalaya are shown as 0 although the zone totals imply about 9.1, 17.7 and 0.15 lakh tonnes; they are treated as not available. For RIDF Tranches I–XXIII, the “Total” row (6,26,214 projects; ₹2,94,683 crore) is slightly higher than the sum of the States (6,20,702; ₹2,94,616 crore). Telangana’s RIDF figures start from Tranche XX; foodgrain storage for Telangana is included in Andhra Pradesh in 2013–2014, and cold storage until 2019. Ladakh’s foodgrain storage is reported separately from 2023. The source’s “NHB/States” cold storage entry for 2018 (20,195 tonnes) is not assigned to any State. “Not available” values are shown as n/a.
