Naveen S Garewal, Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 20. Latin America is opening up its shore for foreign investments and is welcoming farmers from all over the world to come and plough its barren lands. Punjab has asked the Centre through its Ambassador in Brazil and Argentina to work out modalities so that Punjabi farmers could be sent there.
Stating this, Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, who has just returned from a three-nation tour, said the state would soon work on helping those willing to immigrate there.
He said those nations had smaller population and huge tracts of uncultivated lands were available for sale at prices ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh per acre. “Punjabi farmers who are hardworking can make it big in those countries and every effort will be made to make this possible for them”, he added.
Specifically pointing out the case of Brazil, he said it was one of the fastest growing economies and had 26 per cent of the world’s fresh water resources. Since that country treated agriculture as an industry, Punjabis could gain tremendously by investing there, he added.
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