Farmer Lies About Growing Hop Shoots in Bihar
Days after a farmer from Bihar went viral for selling a type of vegetable called ‘hop shoots’ that fetched Rs 1 lakh per kilogram in the market, new reports suggest that the whole thing was a lie.
Recently a news story about farmer Amresh Singh growing Hop Shoots in Bihar’s Aurangabad district went viral. He claimed the vegetable was sold for Rs 1 lakh/kg. ISH News released a video about it and so did many other new channels. After the story went viral, however, Dainik Jagran newspaper reported that no such vegetable was being grown by the farmer. A team from the media house visited Amresh in his village and found that the reports were fake and that no such vegetable was being grown by him. Amresh also kept confusing the reporters about the location of the field where he claimed crops are being grown.
Local villagers confirmed that no such vegetable named “hop shoots” was being cultivated in the vicinity.
Even the Agriculture Department has cleared the air by calling the viral pic of hop-shoots, fake. Amresh Singh has grown black rice and wheat in the past and not hop shoots. Just to clarify. The news about Hop Shoots being the most expensive vegetable and its benefits are true but it is not being grown in Bihar.
