Divya Rawat Contact Address, Fanmail Address, Phone Number, Whatsapp Number, Email ID, Website

Uttarakhand is the headliner of various tabloids and top-of-the-line websites, which have produced full-length stories commending Divya’s achievements in mushroom gardening. But do you know there is behind all this name and fame an unheard narrative about which nobody talks? For all young people who want to do something for the State and generate possibilities for their people, Divya has become a role model. But her trip so far was not simple because at the age of 7 she lost her father. After seeing many ups and downs in her life, Divya not only graduated from a prestigious university, but was also capable of receiving some beautiful job deals from highly revered MNCs, but her affection for the locals and the hills persuaded her to leave the lucrative job and go to Delhi for her masters’ degree in social work. By the time she graduated, she dreamed of rising high and lending wings to other people’s ambitions. Divya’s goal was to engage in agriculture and to promote women’s empowerment and to raise women in the whole region. She arrived to Dehradun with little or no cash to learn about the mushroom business and started mushroom cultivation.

But not everything seemed rosy to these migrants — they had to work in Delhi’s dhabas and tea shops, do menial labour, and pittance.

Divya Rawat was very disturbed to see the destiny of the migrants from her own country. She came to Delhi from Uttarakhand to study her bachelor’s and Masters in social work. She then obtained a job in a renowned non-governmental organisation where she focused on human rights concerns. She pained to watch people in her country living in a horrible metropolis, while the villages back home became fantastic villages. She decided to do something about this condition and the huge boost came from the catastrophic floods of 2013 that ravaged Uttarakhand.  She wanted people to find work and live respectable lives in the state. And she also urged those who left to return home to towns.

I decided to construct a household project cultivate mushrooms. I wanted to make the cultivation simple so that as many people as possible could adopt it.Then I focused on the greatest types that can be farmed with the humblest infrastructure in Uttarakhand’s meteorological circumstances,” added Divia.

For vertical farming, Divya employed bamboo racks, avoiding the need for enormous areas and expensive metal structures. Three species, button, oyster and milky mushrooms, were suited for Uttarakhand. These types may be cultivated indoors and require no air conditioning in all seasons.

Divya’s family believed in her trust and pooled money to help her create Soumya Foods Pvt. Ltd. She began to produce mushrooms in big amounts and offered jobs for many. The demand for champagne on the market was enormous – Divya and her champagne entrepreneurs could not afford to sell their products.

Next, Divya spent some time teaching people vigorously around Uttarakhand. People from all throughout the country also began learning about growing mushrooms. With an investment of only Rs. 50,000, she helped individuals become businesses.

While her business began making profits in only three years and Uttarakhand’s number of mushroom producers multiplied, Divya did not forget the villages of the fantasy. This 26-year-old, together with her companions, began to identify the ghost communities and began producing mushrooms. For example, Divya has brought about transformation in the village of Seriadhar, where people are anxious for their livelihoods. People come to the village to buy champignons and now learn how to raise champignons. Some migrants even go back to the village.

Converse migration may not take place very soon but Divya is sure that mushroom cultivation would eventually dramatically transform the life of Uttarakhand’s villages and farmers.