We care passionately about Animal Nutrition & Overall Well-Being


Shunya strives to be the trusted partner for India’s farmers, addressing the critical need for quality animal nutrition and wellness. With our innovative, on-demand fodder-as-a-service model, we specialize in delivering fresh, chemical-free hydroponic fodder year-round, empowering small farmers across Bharat with affordable fodder sachets that enhance livestock health and productivity.

Beyond nutrition, we support animal wellness by connecting farmers to quality veterinary care through technology, improving both animal health and farm productivity. Our custom Growth & Logistics Centers and village-based Hydroponic Fodder Centers manage the entire seed-to-feed process, ensuring a seamless solution for all animal wellness needs.

Our mission is to transform Indian dairy by enhancing animal productivity and farmer livelihoods, making Shunya the go-to source for reliable, high-value animal nutrition and wellness support.

Did you know?

Indian Dairy Industry under Stress

Dairy Industry contributes to 30-40% of rural incomes and is a regular source of income for majority of the rural households. India ranks #1 in terms of cattle population as well as milk output.

However, the per animal milk productivity of Indian cattle is at 50% of the Global average (4 litres per day per animal vs 7.9 litres per day per animal). Average cattle live span and fertility rates have also seen a steady decline.

Both the above problems can be attributed directly to lack of focus on Optimal Animal Nutrition.



What is Optimal Animal Nutrition?

Optimal nutrition for cattle animals should consist of 3 formats of feed

  1. Green Fodder, as major source of all macro & micro-nutrients
  2. Dry Fodder, as source of bulk and fibre to ensure satiety
  3. Supplementation for nutritional gaps from the above 2 formats, basis the life stage of the animal

Across all geographies in India, one or more of the above formats are deficient in supply and hence the farmers tend to increase proportion of other formats, in effect making the diet unbalanced and having long term impact on health & productivity.

Green Fodder Deficiency - The Burning Issue affecting the Indian Dairy Industry

Traditionally, Green Fodder has been grown by farmers using a part of their land. But with decreasing levels of land ownership amongst marginal farmers, lack of water availability, shortage of labour and the increasing threat of destruction from stray animals due to declining open-grazing lands, Green Fodder is getting deprioritised and farmers are using other fodder formats in the animal’s diet.

Hydroponics as Potential Solution

Hydroponics a technique eliminates the need for soil. It also uses the power of fortified water to promote the intrinsic energy of the input seed and hence requires only a fraction of the water than traditional agriculture.

Couple that with Vertical Farming technique, from the same land footprint, now one can get more than 100X the output, helping solving major problem in growing Green Fodder.

Hydroponic Green Fodder – which is essentially Seeds binded together in the sprouted mesh, along with stem and leaves, can improve nutrition quality, as it is rich in digestible protein and vitamins. It also can be consumer completely ensuring Shunya Effort in Harvesting & Shunya Wastage.

Unlike Hydroponic used for Horticulture, Green Fodder requires much lesser effort and cost as there is no need for high energy cost for replicating sunlight and high cost of highly skilled workforce


Grow & Logistics Centre - Where Magic Happens

We bring to life the combined magic of Hydroponics and Vertical Farming in our Growth & Logistics Centre (GLC). We leverage the concept of distributed production to empower each GLC to cater to an optimised catchment area where we are able to produce and supply the local demand with fresh Green Fodder in a commercially viable manner. We refer to such catchments as Micro-Service-Market (MSM) housing 20,000 cattle animals within a 10km radial circle around our GLC   



URJA, VIDHI & GRANTH - Enabling
the Magic

Our GLCs are powered by cutting edge IoT technology – URJA – that helps track key production metrics like Temperature, Humidity, Moisture levels, Growth Trends, etc. Our workforce at the GLC is equipped with a self evolving Standard Operating Procedure – VIDHI – that helps them navigate through the various activities to be done in the day on their own Shunya Core App login. All the information on activities and production are captured in our Central Operations Centre – GRANTH – where dynamic dashboards empower the team to have a Birds-eye view of operations that can be drilled down to the most micro level as required. 

 

 

Why Shunya?

Let's start off with the name

Shunya means “nothingness” –  and everything else starts from this nothingness. 

The concept of Shunya is truly Indian and clearly defined first in arithmetic by Brahmagupt, Shunya is the foundation of modern mathematics and scientific thinking. 

It is the cornerstone of everything digital that is impacting our lives. You might know Shunya as Zero – as referred to in English. 

Shunya does not have a character or value of its own, but adds tremendous value and character to anything that it gets added to – in our case to the lives our the farmer and his farm animals and of course to our environment. 

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We believe in reducing negatives to Shunya

Shunya
Wastag

No wastage of land & water. The entire crop including root, seeds, stem & leaves can be consumed by cattle.

Shunya
Inconvenienc

Customers don’t need to worry about fodder availability. We will deliver near to their homes thru our Shunya Saarthi Centres. They can also get daily requirement of other fodder. No need to invest on buying & storing in bulk anymore.

Shunya Impact on Environment

We are Carbon Positive, no emissions, no discharge to soil, we give back water to environment thru water harvesting, etc. Many of our facilities will be completely off-the-grid powered completely by renewable sources like Solar.

Shunya Negative Impact on Humans

Land freed up can be used for infrastructural expansion & food security – both enriching human lives

And increasing value through addition of Shunya in
our Customers' lives

Scalability of the model

Can be replicated at any location thru GLC in a box solution along with completely laid out Standard Operating Procedure powered by VIDHI

Evolving from Animal Nutrition to Animal Wellness

Wellness module with AI powered Health Tracking and Expert Consultation for Nutrition & Health (both Virtual and Physical)

Other useful features for Customers

Peer-to-Peer trading platform BAZAAR for customers to trade everything from their cattle to other products like Farm Produce, Vehicles, White Goods, Services, etc

Increase Service Availability to Our Customers

Help National & Local Brands to also help serve our customers, fostering stronger relationship in the community

Social & Environmental Impact


Empowering Local Communities

Our GLC stands as a beacon of agricultural innovation and social empowerment. Here, we are creating meaningful opportunities for semi-skilled labor, many of whom are transitioning from traditional farming practices or seeking organized employment & long term careers.

We also provide alternatives sources of income to our local village Saarthi Partners while leveraging their community connect to make our Hydroponic Green Fodder available to the customers. 

Each of our Associate and Saarthi Partner is equipped with access and training on technology based tools that increases their productivity and makes them ready for the future.

Reducing Livestock based Emission

Enteric Fermentation based emission from Cattle is the single largest source of Methane emission in the country. As per the National Dairy Development Board, an improvement in the diet of cattle can result in a 15-20% decrease in such emissions. With out nutrient rich Green Fodder along with other formats of fodder being made available to farmers, we help improve the Animal’s Diet hence contributing to reducing methan emissions