For the last two years, Gurprit Singh Brar has been mentoring a farmer in Punjab, India, around growing blueberries.
“Indo Canadian farmers like me have got success in Canada,” said Brar, director and research chair of the B.C. Blueberry Council.
“However the farmers in Punjab are committing suicides due to losses. More farmers of Indo origin should come forward to help the Punjab growers.”
Brar, who is from Punjab and is now based in Langley, B.C., says it’s time for farmers like him to give back to farmers of their state, whose agricultural sector has been facing economic losses and seeing the deaths of many farmers.
Punjab is an agrarian province in northwestern India,
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