An Economics graduate from North Kashmir’s Kupwara district, who quit his job two years back in search of an innovative source of income that could make him financially sound, has now become an owner to a mushroom cultivation farm.
After completing a Masters Degree in Economics from Dehradun in 2018, Nisar Ahmad Ganie (27) moved back to Kashmir to support his family. He joined a private school as a teacher in July 2018 at Kulangam Handwara but he realized soon that this job could not fulfil the financial needs of his family.
Speaking to ANI, Nisar said that to support his family, he quit the job and decided to do something innovative that could make him financially sound.
“I quit the job and decided to do something innovative to help my family. In 2019, I attended a mushroom cultivation awareness programme organized by the agriculture department at my village Bramri Kupwara,” he said
After a three-month training course, the agricultural department Kupwara encouraged him for a mushroom cultivation unit for which he was offered the required stuff free of cost.
“Agricultural department encouraged me to go for a mushroom cultivation unit for which I was offered the required stuff free of cost. I took the initiative and started with a single unit in 2019,” he said