A farmer from Sohdih village of Bihar's Nalanda district has set a new world record in potato production by harvesting 108.8 tonnes of potato per hectare through organic farming.
The farmer, Rakesh Kumar, has beaten a record set last March by farmer Nitish Kumar, also from Nalanda, who had harvested 72.9 tonnes of potato per hectare, Nalanda district magistrate Sanjay Kumar Agrawal said.
Nalanda, the home district of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, is already the leading potato producing district in Bihar, with farmers growing the crop on over 27,000 hectares. Bihar is the third-largest potato producing state, after Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Before Nitish Kumar,the world record was 45 tonnes per hectare, held by farmers in the Netherlands.
"Rakesh Kumar has created a new world record in potato production through organic farming. It was verified by experts, scientists and officials," said Agrawal. He added that several officials and agricultural experts were present in the field during the harvest time to verify the claim.
The farmers of Nalada are an efficient lot. Earlier, they had also set a world record by producing 224 quintals of paddy per hectare.
Rakesh Kumar said he used a high density plantation technique, used for enhancing mango, litchi and guava production, for growing the kufri pukhraj variety of potato to lift the old benchmark to a new level.
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