Success Story: Punjab Farmer is making a profit of millions every month by raising non -mismatched vegetables
Harpreet Singh Sidhu, who lives in Mansa district of Punjab, once drowned in debt of Rs 12 lakh. His condition did not even see him and his family wings, except for the AC. But in a few years, the 25-year-old Harpreet has changed her and her family life by cultivating off-season vegetables. This marginal farmer in the village of Tutiyanwali has transformed his personal and economic destruction into a successful story with his hard work and dedication. He proved that if the efforts are correct, even a small land can generate a large income of Rs 6-7 lakh per acre.
Sometimes used to make tents
Harpreet’s life is always full of trouble. A few years ago his older brother was murdered in a minor dispute. After this, in the war, all the family families ended. He had to sell gold, cattle and land. According to the Indian Express report, Harpreet had to leave school after 11th grade and had to work for Rs 600 per day. Despite the debt and daily stress of the moneylenders, the grocery shoppers, who came to ask their money every day, did not give up every day.
Borrowed cultivation
In 2017, at the age of 17, Harpreet alias Happy daily wages and brown and rice’s traditional cultivation. After this, he tried to cultivate unsonnated vegetables on 1.3 acres of land. This is the only land that does not mortgage. Despite his parents’ doubts, he borrowed Rs. He was successful in gambling playing Harpreet. He earned Rs 6 lakh in 10 months from this vegetable and lent Rs 5 lakh.
This is the secret of success
2020 Lockdown Harpreet stops progress. At the end of 2021, a friend gave them 0.75 acres of land. By 2023, he acquired three acres of land. Harpreet returned to his collapse house. In 2024, he went to a new home, including family. According to Harpreet, he reached here only after growing off-season crops.
According to Harpreet, when the green peas season ended in Punjab in November, he sown them in the tunnel. At the beginning of January, he begins to cut it. By that time, market prices would be great. He sold peas worth at least Rs 2.20 lakh. After completing the cost of about Rs 50,000 input, Harpreet earned only Rs 1.70 lakh from peas.
Harpreet sown the pre -crop of Coupia on the same farm, which is ready by March. 80 to 100 per kg, 70-80 quintal of green cowpea sold, earning a total of 7-8 lakh rupees. After the cost, I will make a profit of at least 4-5 lakhs. After harvesting the crop in May, he again sown Coupia on the same farm. Although yields are slightly lower and rates are very low, they are still very profitable.
Okra and pumpkin cultivation from chilli
In half of the other two acres, Harpreet raises wheat for his own food. The rest are planted with vegetables such as zucchini, baka, zucchini, bitter gourd, capsicum, tomato, bitter and tomato chilli, slipper pumpkin and lady finger. Harpreet said his vegetable period would begin in November and the two acres would be at the end of September.
In the rest of the field, it ends in June. In June, he sows the basmati or PR -126 rice in one acre, and he bites at the beginning of October. For the next two months, October and November, he relaxed the fields and prepares the nursery for the next vegetable cycle.
Harpreet grows most of his vegetables in off-season, which gives them premium prices. He says, ‘My mother lived at home without a fan. Today they have an AC room. Harpreet gained knowledge of vegetable farming by participating in many farmers’ festivities in Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.
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