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  • Kawakawa, near Labasa, Fiji: Bansi Lal, 69, is the tractor driver for Gang 12, responsible for taking the loaded cane trucks to the tracks where a locomotive will transport them to the Labasa mill for processing
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  • Woolgoolga, Australia: Banana grower John Arkan is an elected member of the Coffs Harbor City Council. His grandfather came to this region on the mid-north coast of New South Wales in 1895. Sikhs took up banana farming in the 1940s when mechanization came to the sugarcane industry in Queensland, where many of them had worked as laborers. Today, the Sikh community in Woolgoolga is prosperous, having diversified into blueberries, hydroponic vegetables, and other business ventures.
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  • Yuba City, California | 2104<br />
Karm Bains is a fourth-generation California farmer, who grows peaches, prunes, walnuts, and almonds. His father, Didar Singh Bains, worked on California farms as a day laborer, saving most of his meager wages and buying land on his way to becoming one of the biggest peach growers in the nation. Sikhs from Punjab first arrived in the early 20th century to work on railroads, sawmills, and in agriculture in Canada. Many settled farther south in California, working first as laborers and then buying and developing land. Today the northern Central Valley is home to a Sikh community that has expanded beyond agriculture and into other forms of business, politics, philanthropy, and the arts.
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