During the flooding season, Luong Van Tran hires a large number of workers to harvest 500 kilograms of water caltrops daily in marshes in Dong Thap Province. The workers paddle down the marshes in ...

Rice, maize, and wheat provide more than half of the calories consumed by humans. The decrease in crop diversity poses a significant risk to global food security. Therefore, the utilization of orphan ...

The illegal cultivation of water caltrop or water chestnut in the wetlands of Etawah-Mainpuri and other parts of the state poses a big threat to the sarus crane, UP’s state bird, say experts. AGRA: ...

The scorching heat and lack of rain has forced farmers to delay sowing of ‘singhara’ (water caltrop or water chestnut) in Bijnor district. Farmers say if there is no rain and sufficient water in the ...

Peng Da, a 28-year-old entrepreneur, is always associated with the water caltrop because his company has created an entire industrial chain for the nut, one of the earliest domesticated crops in China ...

A man harvests water caltrops (lingjiao in Chinese) in Taicang, Jiangsu province, on Oct 8. / Courtesy of Taicang Daily. For residents of Yalu village in Huangjing town, it is customary to plant water ...

Rice, maize, and wheat provide more than half of the calories consumed by humans. The decrease in crop diversity poses a significant risk to global food security. Therefore, the utilization of orphan ...