Pooja Sharma lives in the village of Chandu, near Gurugram in the Indian state of Haryana.

She bought cows and began to produce milk; when officials from Krishi Vigyan Kendra visited the village, she rejected their idea of learning to sew as unsaleable.

[1] She sold dalia (porridge), laddoos, jowar (sorghum) and soy nuts.

[1][2] In 2017, a non-governmental organization helped Sharma set up a bakery, in a mansion believed by some local people to be haunted,[2] that now employs 150 women and supplies Gurugram restaurants with biscuits made from flaxseed, oatmeal and walnut.

[3] The state government of Haryana presented Sharma with awards for agricultural leadership in 2015, and for farming innovation in the following year.