4 min readJalandharUpdated: Jul 26, 2026 10:38 AM IST Balwinder Sandhu dropped out of convent education after matriculation due to a paucity of money given his family circumstances and started traditional wheat and paddy farming on his family land. Later, he began shifting to horticultural crops, starting with just two acres in 2010-11. The 51-year-old farmer at Sukhna Ablu village in Muktsar Sahib district today owns 26 acres, of which he transformed around 20 acres into a diversified organic farm “Preet Agro Nature Way Farm”, producing nearly 35 to 40 varieties of fruits, spices and a similar range of seasonal vegetables. “I started with just two acres of horticulture by shifting from wheat and paddy in 2010-11. I gradually expanded after seeing the response from customers and realising that there was a market for fresh produce,” he says. Sandhu has planted an unusually wide range of fruit varieties, including kinnow, daisy, malta, mitha, Nagpuri orange, Japanese orange, different varieties of lemons and chakotra. (Express Photo) Sandhu inherited about 11 acres from his father, who had …