The journey began when floods hit the Uttarakhand Hills. In 2013, I was in Delhi, but the disaster pushed me to help the affected women. Using my educational background - a graduate degree in chemistry and botany, and a post graduate degree in business management, to find a solution to help the affected women by mushroom farming. I moved back to Dehradun to start the experiment with an initial investment of INR 2,000. In the same year I founded Hanzen International, a mushroom farming venture on 1.5 acres of land by setting up ten huts with 500 bags in each of them.
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Over the years, I have supported more than 5,000 women in the region to gain sustainable livelihood & increased their income by double, building a food processing unit & coming up with a value-added product range and selling it in the state of Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana & Uttar Pradesh.
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Social Impact: - Breaking the stereotypes for increasing agricultural productivity by bringing technology and mechanization to farming communities, introducing them in the new era of modern farming, revolutionizing the medicinal mushroom industry and empowering women, landless farmers, tribals, and communities across India. With a technology-enabled platform currently providing complete end-to-end services to more than 5,000 Indian farmers from “Seed to Market” with an aim to expand to a million by 2024.
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Represented Govt of India in the APO meet in Singapore in August 2023
Represented Govt of India in the Bangkok Expo backed by Embassy of Thailand in July 2023.
Selected by Niti Ayog – Govt of India as the top 75 Innovative Company of India – A Compendium was inaugurated by Honourable Amit Shah on Home Ministry Portal.
Selected in top 25 Women for Ambassador Programmed by Goldman Sachs and ISB – 2019
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