India, Dec. 12 -- A Reddit post detailing how a buyer's agricultural plot skyrocketed in value from Rs.42 lakh to nearly Rs.3 crore in 10 years has sparked a debate on whether land truly delivers superior long-term returns, or whether success stories are often the product of luck, timing and infrastructure-led booms.

The Redditor described the investment made by his father in 2015, a 1.5-acre plot in their village near Nagpur, which was bought despite the poor soil quality and only a kutcha access road.

The father purchased the land using savings and proceeds from a previous sale, betting on the village's gradual development. "It was full of stones. it was hard to cultivate," the poster wrote, adding that for years the land showed no pr...