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Ploughing to progress -Viney Sharma

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published Published on Aug 23, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 23, 2018
-The Tribune

The lure for land at a reasonable rate and better funding options are drawing farmer-entrepreneurs from Punjab and Haryana to Canada

The North American nation is drawing farmer-entrepreneurs in large numbers from India’s breadbasket — Punjab and Haryana. No, they aren’t the rich ones buying luxury villas in exotic locales. They are the aspiring ones who expect to hit pay dirt as authorities in the former English colony provide agricultural land at abysmally low prices as compared to India.

“Farmers are going to be driving Lamborghinis,” said global investor Jim Rogers. And adding another dimension to the quote is 43-year-old Sushil Yadav’s thought: “Fund managers will become farmers.”  Considering the plight of the farming sector in India, this may not hold true, but the sons of soil are scripting a different success story in faraway lands with sheer perseverance and there is no dearth of rags-to-riches stories emanating from the Indian diaspora in Canada.

Reaping dividends

Yadav, who chose farming as his vocation after working in the IT sector for over 15 years in Canada, now has a farm close to the serene Niagara Falls. And he’s not the only one. Almost 37 years ago, when Paramjit Singh Minhas from Kouhja village near Adampur landed in Toronto in 1981, he had no inclination for farming. However, the lack of a suitable job left him with no option but to sow seeds of success. There has been no looking back for Minhas and today, he is the biggest Indian cucumber farmer in Canada. Similarly, Sikh farmer Peter Dhillon is Canada’s biggest cranberry producer and so is Karnail Sidhu, who owns one of the largest wineries — Kalala Organic Estate — in Canada. The list goes on….and doesn’t just include people coming from traditional farming backgrounds.

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The Tribune, 19 August, 2018, https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/sunday-special/columns/ploughing-to-progress/639053.html


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