I Started in a Village, and I'm Still on the Land: Agriculture Has Always Paid Me Back
I was born and raised in a village. Agriculture was never an "investment vehicle" I discovered later in life. It was the life I was born into. Over the years, I have worked hands-on in almost every branch of this business: I grew olives, almonds, walnuts, and pistachios, and I was personally involved in every stage, from planting the sapling to selling the harvest.
Agriculture was never my only occupation, though. For many years I have also worked in tourism and real estate, and I still do. This gave me a rare chance to compare different sectors side by side, with my own money and my own labor. And I can say it without hesitation: among all of them, agriculture has always paid me back. Tourism moves with the seasons, real estate rises and falls with the market; but land, when managed properly, keeps producing and keeps appreciating.
From buying and selling land to millions of square meters of orchards
Like most people, I started at the beginning: land investment. At first, it was simply buy and sell. Find the right land in the right region, and sell it when its value rises. But over time I saw something clearly: the true value of land comes from the production you build on it.
So I went further. I established millions of square meters of walnut orchards. Some I sold, some I operated myself for years. I did the same with olives: I established olive groves, sold them, operated them. I produced olive oil and sold it under my own brand, and I still do today. So what I share here is not theory. It comes from businesses I built, operated, profited from, and sometimes paid the price to learn from.
And I still grow, hundreds of thousands of saplings at a time
Today, in a state-of-the-art, fully technological greenhouse, I continue to grow hundreds of thousands of olive, almond, and pistachio saplings. For me, this is the most rewarding part of the whole business. Watching a sapling you raised take root in the field, turn bare land green, give something back to nature, and generate real income at the same time is a pleasure that few investments in life can offer. It is proof that in agriculture, doing good for the land and doing good business are not opposites. They are the same thing.
Let's be honest: farming is hard
After all these years, let me say openly what few people in this business will: agriculture is hard. Especially open-field production across millions of square meters. Even with today's technology, it is genuinely difficult. Frost strikes, drought comes, labor gets harder to find every year, and costs become unpredictable. You can install drip irrigation and monitor your fields with drones, but you cannot give orders to the sky.
I don't say this to scare investors away. I say it so they look in the right direction. Because the way to win in agriculture is to choose production models where risk is minimized and the process can be controlled.
Why poultry, and why now
This is exactly why the poultry business I entered years ago with egg production is where I am now making serious, large-scale investments. Unlike open-field farming, poultry is closed and controlled production. Dependence on climate is minimal, the production cycle is short, yields can be calculated, and income is predictable. You are producing for one of the fastest-growing protein markets in the world, and demand rises every year.
After a lifetime on the land, I haven't walked away from my orchards. I still produce my olive oil, still manage my groves, still raise my saplings. But when I look at an investor who wants to put their capital into agriculture today, I see controlled production, poultry above all, as one of the areas that balances risk and return most soundly.
A final word
I came from a village, I have built businesses in several sectors, but the one asset that has never let me down is the land and what it produces. Agriculture is not easy; it demands the right knowledge, the right model, and the right management. When those three come together, it is still the soundest investment there is.
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