BusinessPhoto: MintMaharashtra Farmer Achieves ₹2 Crore Annual Turnover with Dragon Fruit
Mahesh Asabe, a farmer from Solapur, Maharashtra, transformed his family’s farming by cultivating dragon fruit on three acres, leading to an annual turnover of ₹2 crore. Starting in 2013-14 with 9,000 saplings from Bangladesh, the farm now spans 60 acres growing multiple fruits. Dragon fruit alone generates about ₹1.25 crore yearly, with initial harvests yielding 15 tonnes and prices rising from ₹33 to ₹250 per kilogram by 2017.
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