"Water Chestnuts Extractors"

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18 August 2021

Water Chestnuts Extractors and Traders are seen with the Collected Water Chestnuts near the Banks of Wular Lake in bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India on 18 August 2021. The powerhouse of nutrients — water chestnuts played a significant role during the famine which hit Kashmir a century ago. To avoid being starved, the locals used chestnut flour apart from other dried items.

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18 August 2021

Water Chestnuts Extractors and Traders are seen with the Collected Water Chestnuts near the Banks of Wular Lake in bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India on 18 August 2021. The powerhouse of nutrients — water chestnuts played a significant role during the famine which hit Kashmir a century ago. To avoid being starved, the locals used chestnut flour apart from other dried items.

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18 August 2021

Local Water Chestnut extractors hand over the daily collected Water Chestnuts to traders at Wular Lake in Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India on 18 August 2021. As per estimation, Wular Lake alone has an annual production of around 5000 metric tons of water caltrops with Dal Lake contributing nearly 2,000 metric tons alongside other wetlands across Kashmir valley.

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18 August 2021

Water Chestnut extractors and Traders are seen on the banks of Wular Lake in Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India on 18 August 2021. The lake contributes more than 60 per cent of the fish production in the Kashmir region as around 5-7 thousand fishermen are earning their livelihood from the lake, published by the Department of Ecology, Environment and Remote Sensing, Government of Jammu & Kashmir.

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18 August 2021

A man extracts water chestnuts from Wular Lake in bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India on 18 August 2021. The raw water caltrops are marketed outside the valley for pharmaceutical and confectionery products.

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18 August 2021

A Woman extracts water chestnuts from Wular Lake in bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, india on 18 August 2021. The womenfolk who outnumber men in Wular Lake help their families to make ends meet by rowing their boats to collect water chestnuts from the marshland.

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18 August 2021

A Girl extracts water chestnuts from Wular Lake in bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India on 18 August 2021. The womenfolk who outnumber men in Wular Lake help their families to make ends meet by rowing their boats to collect water chestnuts from the marshland.

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