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Amritsar man is Argentina's Peanut Prince!
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Wednesday, 22 September, 2010, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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 Simmerpal Singh, known as Argentina's Peanut Prince, was among those Indians who had welcomed agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhubir Singh when they visited Argentina recently. Simmerpal Singh grows the nut over 12,000 hectares and soya and corn over 5,000 hectares in the Rio Cuarto area of Cordoba province, about 1,000 km from Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. Simmerpal employs 140 persons to work on his company's farms and plans to expand operations to diversify into wheat and pulses cultivation.
Simmarpal, his architect wife Harpreet Kaur and their two children, moved to Argentina in 2005 to buy peanuts for his company, Olam, a $5.6 billion firm into agri-business. Simmerpal did his BSc (Honours) in agriculture from Guru Nanak University and later a Masters in rural management from IRMA, Anand. Before coming to Argentina, he had worked in Mozambique, Ivory Coast and Ghana and is fluent in Spanish.
Indian Ambassador to Aegentina, Rangaraj Viswanathan, has described Simmerpal as a role model for success in agri-business in his blog. "The role model has become the target pursuit of hot Argentine models. When they see his flashy red turban, they chase him, they follow his car and stalk him everywhere… when I visited Rio Cuarto Country Club on May 16 last year, the Argentine players asked me where they could buy a turban and how to wear it. I asked them the reason for this interest. They showed me a villa within the Country Club complex and said, "Here lives an Indian Maharaja. He looks handsome with his turban. When he goes to the nightclub, he gets premium service and gets it free because they think he is a Maharaja," wrote the Ambassador about his first meeting with Simmarpal.
-- Source: The Tribune
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