Agrograde installs automated onion grader at Pimpalgaon market
Agrograde has deployed its GradePlus Pro automated onion grading system at a farmer producer company in Pimpalgaon, Maharashtra. The company says the system can grade up to 10 tonnes an hour, cut grading labour by nearly 80% and improve supply-chain handling for mandi, storage and export use.
What happened
Agrograde installed its GradePlus Pro automated onion grading system at a farmer producer company in Pimpalgaon, Maharashtra, targeting faster, lower-cost
Key facts
- Up to 10 tonnes of onions per hour
- Nearly 80% reduction in grading labour
- Up to 99% grading accuracy
- 3-5 times higher throughput than manual grading
- ₹0.05 per kg grading cost
- Up to 200 tonnes per day
- More than 130 machines deployed
- 14 States
- Founded in 2018
Why this matters
The Pimpalgaon deployment makes Agrograde a potential partner or acquisition target for agri-logistics, cold-chain and export-platform players seeking quality-control capabilities at the farm-gate.
What to watch
- Verified daily throughput and machine uptime during peak onion arrivals.
- Actual labor reduction and grading-cost data versus the claimed ₹0.05 per kg.
- Improvement in price realization, rejection rates, storage losses and export acceptance for graded lots.
- Number of additional installations and orders after the first harvest/marketing season.
- Adoption of batch-level quality records by FPCs, exporters and organized retail procurement teams.
- Any export-policy changes, onion price controls or mandi restrictions that reduce incentives to invest in premium grading.
- Track whether Agrograde secures repeat orders from Maharashtra onion FPCs, packhouses, cold-storage operators and exporters.
- Watch for buyer contracts that explicitly require graded onion specifications, lot traceability or standardized packaging.
- Assess whether the Pimpalgaon FPC introduces differentiated pricing for export-grade, retail-grade and processing-grade onions.
- Monitor financing, subsidy or state horticulture support for post-harvest automation and packhouse infrastructure.
- Look for competing optical sorting, weighing, packing and digital traceability vendors entering Nashik-region mandis.