Onion nursery on 10 marlas, now 250 customers earning Rs 6-7L per acre

What if the secret to earning more from farmland was not buying more land, but making every available patch work harder? For Manpreet Singh, a 34-year-old farmer from Rahim Ke Uttar village in Punjab’s Ferozepur district, this question has shaped an increasingly diversified agricultural business.In 2020, Singh began raising onion seedlings on just 10 marlas of land. The experiment gradually expanded into a nursery enterprise serving around 250 customers, alongside vegetable cultivation, paddy and Basmati nurseries, short-duration crops and dairy farming. He estimates that his approach can generate ₹6 lakh to ₹7 lakh per acre annually, although actual returns depend on crop performance, input costs, weather and market prices, according to Kisaan of India. His five-acre farm is organised around a practical idea: different crops need different amounts of time, and land that becomes available after one harvest can potentially support another productive cycle.