World's most expensive vegetable that costs Rs 1 lakh per kg being grown in Bihar
Hyderabad: If the government prices of essential commodities skyrocket, the opposition leaders and people take the ruling government to task alleging that they had failed to control the prices. In fact, even cheap vegetables can be expensive to buy once in a while. Vegetable prices will be on the rise due to heavy rains or a hike in petrol and diesel prices.
In such a situation, not only the common man, but also the moderately wealthy will back down a bit to buy them. But, vegetables may be priced around Rs 50 to less than Rs 100 per kg, but hearing the price of a vegetable will definitely blow your mind.
If you want to buy this vegetable ... you have to spend around Rs 1 lakh per kilo. In fact, no one has ever heard of such an expensive vegetable. The rich also think twice about buying such an expensive vegetable. What's so special about this vegetable? Why it is so expensive? The name of this vegetable is ‘Hop Shoots’ and these vegetable flowers are called ‘Hop Cones’. They are used in the preparation of beer.
The remaining twigs are used as vegetables. The stem of this vegetable plant is also used in the preparation of medicines. Recently, people are showing interest in eating this vegetable. Moreover, this vegetable is being grown by a young man from Bihar. Amresh Singh, the first young farmer from Bihar in India, is cultivating the most expensive ‘Hop Shoots’ in the world.
