Our country is very famous for farming. Various types of vegetables are cultivated here. In such a situation, there is such cultivation from Bihar, which is enough to surprise you. In Aurangabad district of Bihar, a man is doing farming whose vegetable is worth Rs 1 lakh per kg. This vegetable is also the most expensive vegetable in the world. The name of this expensive vegetable is hop-shoots. Hop-shoots were discovered in the 11th century. Since then it was used as a flavoring agent in Beer.
Apart from all this, this vegetable is also used on a tour of herbal medicine. On the surface, it now goes as a vegetable. An acid is found in shoots, namely humulones and lupulones. It is said about this that cancer cells in the human body help in killing and because of this gun it is the most expensive vegetable in the world.
A 38-year-old farmer, Amresh Singh, hails from Karamdih village in Navinagar block in Aurangabad district of Bihar. He is the first farmer in India to cultivate hop-shoots. Let me tell you that six years ago, he sold one kilogram of hop-shoots in the international market for 1000 pounds, which is about one lakh rupees in Indian rupees. Hop-shoots are extremely popular in the Indian market and are specially ordered.
In the context of this farming, Amresh Singh says that if the special steps to promote the cultivation of hop-shoots, the farmers will benefit greatly. There will be an increase of about 10 times in their income. Presently, Hop-shoots are cultivated by the Agricultural Scientist of Indian Vegetable Research Institute, Varanasi. It is being done under the supervision of Lal.
He says that he brought the seeds of this vegetable from the Indian Vegetable Research Institute in Varanasi two months ago and planted it in his field. At the same time he hopes that this will change his farming and his hard work will be successful. Let us know that fruit, fruit and stem of hop-shoots are used in making drinks, beer making and medicines like antibiotics.
