Hailing from central Kashmir’s Budgam district, Insha Rasool left her PhD in Korea and came back in 2018 so as to pursue what she actually wanted to do and her dedication didn’t let her fall. Insha, who was pursuing Molecular Signalling from a South Korea University, wanted to explore ‘organic farming’. That’s how- Homegreens, a ‘farm-to-fork’ brand that she has built with her hard work over the last two years. When she began her dream project, all she had was her ancestral land of 3.5 acres, on which her family used to grow crops and vegetables for self-consumption. She started approaching the farmers, purchased seeds and manure, and hired labourers to do the sowing, tilling and other such work.
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