Saved India’s food crisis

 

SHE ACCIDENTALLY SOLVED INDIA'S ₹40,000 CRORE CRISIS AND MADE INDIA PROUD!

India grows 26 million tons of onions every year. But 40% rots before reaching people.

That's enough food for 50 million Indians. Just wasted.

Farmers relied on smell to detect spoilage. By the time they knew, it was already too late.

Every year, Kalyani Shinde’s father lost 50% of his onion harvest to spoilage.

But what she built next changed everything for millions of farmers.

So Kalyani did something no one expected.

Just a daughter who couldn’t see her father suffer anymore.

She was still a computer engineering student.

She went to Lasalgaon, Asia’s biggest onion market and built a solution.

With just ₹3 lakh in funding, she created Godaam Sense - India’s first IoT device that detects onion spoilage before it starts.

This IoT device tracks:

📌 Temperature and humidity changes in real-time

📌 Gas emissions from early-stage spoilage

📌 Sends alerts when just 1% starts rotting

Today, farmers using her device save 20–30% of their onions.

Kalyani didn’t want fame. She just wanted to protect her father’s harvest.

And in doing so, she may have solved India’s biggest storage crisis.

Tales of unsung heroes who are quietly changing our world.