facebook
Pintrest
Can you ever imagine buying 1 kg vegetables for 1 lakh rupees? Well, in the age of social media anything can go viral and this is what happened when a news story about a Bihar based farmer cultivating Hop Shoots that cost Rs 1 lakh per Kg went viral.
This news made rounds all over the internet until a recent fact check claimed that the news was fake, but here why you still need to read on….
The game changer
Recently a post by IAS officer Supriya Sahu, wherein she tweeted a news article from a leading daily along with a picture of the crops and captioned the picture as One kilogram of this vegetable costs about 1 lakh . Can be a game-changer for Indian farmers. This post instantly went viral.
Amresh Singh is a 38-year-old farmer from Karamdih village under Navinagar block of Bihar’s Aurangabad district. He is among the pioneer in hop-shoot cultivation in India.
Hop shoots: Bihar farmer cultivates world’s most expensive crop
By Sameer| Published: 3rd February 2021 3:05 pm IST Representational photo
Aurangabad: A 38-year-old Bihar farmer Amresh Singh is cultivating the world’s most expensive crop, ‘hop shoots’ in Aurangabad District.
According to a report in New Indian Express, the farmer hails from Karamdih village of Navinagar block in Aurangabad district.
He said that the crop has the potential to increase farmers’ income by ten times as it costs 1000 Euros in the international market which approximately equals to Rs. 85000.
Agricultural scientist Dr Lal of the Indian Vegetable Research Institute at Varanasi is supervising the cultivation of the crop in Aurangabad.