Gazalla Amin, Proprietor, Fasiam Agro Farms and 2013 Vital Voices VVLead Fellow

Gazalla Amin is the proprietor of Fasiam Agro Farms, an aromatic plant farm and processing plant. She is dedicated to introducing women to business and entrepreneurship and founded the Women’s Association for Kashmir Entrepreneurs (WAKE) in 2013. Gazalla was the first woman to run for the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and the first female recipient of the state’s Progressive Farming Award. She has also received the ‘Women Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ from the prestigious India Today group.

Women’s leadership as a force for change

Gazalla Amin, Proprietor, Fasiam Agro Farms and 2013 Vital Voices VVLead Fellow, 18 September 2013 - Development Debates, Girls & Women

I was educated to be a doctor, and look at what I became! In India, we follow the instructions of our parents. As part of a generation and culture of doing what we are told, I dutifully attended medical school. …

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