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Sikh farmers keep up a 900-year tradition, in California
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Last Updated: Jul 12, 2021, 08:28 AM IST
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Over the past century, ethnic diasporas from all over the world have labored in these fields, as people from Armenia, Mexico, Southeast Asia, China and many other places have built lives and families rooted in central California’s fertile soil.
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Anureet Kaur at her home in Selma, Calif., March 24, 2021. In California, a young generation of Sikh farmers has agricultural roots that stretch back 900 years.
Simranjit Singh is a second-generation American farmer, but his agricultural roots go back 900 years.
Before his father moved to California from India in 1991, before India gained independence from Britain in 1947, before his Sikh culture took root in 1469, the civilizations of Northern India worked various agricultural lands. Singh, 28, is part that unbroken lineage.
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