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 ...

Autumn treat: Four-horned red water caltrops from Jiangnan [Photo by Pauline D. Loh/Shanghai Star] In a very distant childhood, we had looked forward to the Mid-Autumn Festival because of all the good ...

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: ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Waste from the water caltrop has been transformed into a high added-value product in the city of Tainan, where the aquatic plant is grown in large quantities. Also known as ...

Bad news, I'm afraid. Water caltrop, Trapa natans, are interesting little things, hard and sharp. Shaped sort of like the horns of a bull. But of course, they come from a plant. And if you step on one ...

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 ...