With just $200 in his pocket and his father’s blessing, Gulzar Singh traveled almost 5,800 miles from his native land of India to Greece to find a better life thirty one years ago. And by any measure, he most certainly has done just that!
Now, at the age of forty-nine, he has been baptized in Greece (taking the name “Spyros”), and has become a very successful farmer and entrepreneur.
“My hard work has paid off,” says Singh, in a recent interview with the Athens News Agency (ANA). “Today, I cultivate 1,000 acres of Greek land in Megara, Evia and mountainous Corinth. I also own 22 acres of tomatoes that I cultivate with two nets, which is an innovative and economical method.”
When the successful entrepreneur traveled to Greece so many years ago with three of his friends, during the flight they talked about what they would do when they arrived in the “Land of Opportunity” as they saw it.