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Pistachio ranching: A family tradition

A retired Minnesota urologist leverages a long family history of pistachio farming into his own venture.

By Tyler Chin, AMNews staff. July 17, 2006.

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Name: Ahmad Orandi, MD

Specialty: Urology

Location: Hopkins, Minn.

Business: A & R Pistachios of California (www.orandipistachios.com)

The company sells premium pistachios grown on a farm in Terra Bella, Calif., about 50 miles south of Fresno. The company operates a shop in Hopkins, Minn., run by Dr. Orandi's daughter.

Annual revenue: Annual profits fluctuate from $125,000 to $250,000.

Why he started the business: While living and practicing in Fergus Falls, Minn., Dr. Orandi and his wife went to California in 1969 to look at buying land, which led his wife to ask why he wanted to buy property so far away.

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