In the quiet village of Lesriwal in Jalandhar’s Adampur block, Amandeep Kaur Dhaliwal, who is in her mid-30s, has redefined the narrative about farming. After leaving behind a promising academic journey—completing her MCA and MSc in information technology but leaving a PhD in computer science halfway—she got married in 2014 and embarked on a new chapter in life. Amandeep left her job at Khalsa College, Muktsar, to focus on raising her young children and began farming alongside her husband on her family’s 17 acres of farmland. Although she had to shift to Canada for a couple of years during the Covid period, she returned, driven by a deep passion for farming. Today, she is successfully engaged in integrated farming and earning in lakhs per month. Amandeep, a Permanent Resident in Canada, and her husband Khuspal Singh Sangha, a Canadian citizen, wanted to focus on agriculture and allied occupations. In 2015, they decided to venture into fish farming and trained in fisheries at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, where they learned …