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- Pune-based start-up Godaam Innovations, founded by Kalyani Shinde, has won a Union Government contract from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs to monitor onion storage in warehouses.
- The company's IoT-based device tracks temperature, humidity and gases to detect spoilage in onion warehouses at an early stage.
- The system sends real-time alerts to farmers in their local language, helping them act before crop decay spreads.
- Onion farmers in India lose at least 25 per cent of stored onions, and rabi onion harvested in April must last until mid-September, making storage monitoring critical since rabi makes up 70 per cent of total production.
- Godaam Innovations is also testing a treatment system for poultry products and building a warehouse management platform to connect buyers and sellers directly.
What to watch next
- Rollout and results of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs onion monitoring contract
- Progress of Godaam's poultry product treatment trials
- Development of the warehouse management platform connecting buyers and sellers
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Kalyani Shinde
founder of Pune-based Godaam Innovations
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“We have won a Union Government contract, with the Ministry of Consumer Affairs giving us the responsibility to monitor onion in its warehouses”
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…More success has come in the way of Kalyani Shinde, founder of Pune-based Godaam Innovations, who was the winner of the businessline Young Changemaker Award in 2025. “ We have won a Union Government contract, with the Ministry of Consumer Affairs giving us the responsibility to monitor onion in its warehouses ,” said Shinde over the telephone from Pune. Kalyani won the Young Changemaker Award for establishing India’s first IoT-based onion storage solution device in Godaam Innovations. It monitors the microclimate of onion…
“When I began, the idea was not to launch a start-up but to help my family and community. I was witnessing the problem (onion rotting) first-hand as all my family is in agriculture”
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…is harvested in April and has to last at least until mid-September when the new early kharif crop arrives. Rabi onion makes up 70 per cent of India’s total onion production. Accepting the award last year, Shinde said, “ When I began, the idea was not to launch a start-up but to help my family and community. I was witnessing the problem (onion rotting) first-hand as all my family is in agriculture ,” she said. Kalyani said a massive amount of the kitchen staple rots every year in warehouses and she was keen to reduce this post-harvest loss. “We have a saying in Nashik that onion can make or break governments,”…
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