BOHECO was born out of the collective experiences of the co-founders when they were studying in H R College of Commerce and Economics in 2013. "One of our first projects with our college group in SIFE (now Enactus) was ‘ProjectChirag’ – which aimed to bring affordable solar electrification into rural hamlets and villages across multiple states in India," says Yash Kotak, Co-founder of the company.
During their travels, the founders learnt that the cannabis plant’s presence was ubiquitous across the nation, regardless of the state or district. In certain Indian terrains, the founders note, cannabis grows naturally.
In the summer of 2013, Jahan happened to visit his extended family in Australia, when he encountered hemp in the Australian outbacks. Amused by how the rural towns had successfully harnessed the potential of the hemp plant to create and sell industrial and medical products (clothes, building material, healthy foods etc), Jahan shared his experiences with the founders. These two events piqued the curiosity of the founders, and they began to study cannabis as a business – the regulatory space, research domains, and commercial market opportunities in India.
The six of them proactively began a quest to find a solution that would benefit the agricultural and local industries, which led the team to establish Bombay Hemp Company (BOHECO).
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