Water chestnut pond a centre of attraction

Tribune News ServiceChandigarh, October 14 A village located along the Landran-Banur road has become a centre of attraction for the commercial harvesting of water chestnuts (popularly called singhara) in its five-acre community pond. If a worker Wasim’s statement is anything...

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Updated At : 12:39 PM Oct 15, 2020 IST

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 14

A village located along the Landran-Banur road has become a centre of attraction for the commercial harvesting of water chestnuts (popularly called singhara) in its five-acre community pond.

If a worker Wasim’s statement is anything to go by, Mote Majra is the only village in the area where water chestnuts are being grown. He says, “Every year, we get more than 65 quintals of water chestnuts from the village pond and it is supplied to Mohali, Chandigarh, Kharar, Morinda, Ropar and Panchkula.”

“The pond, which attracts many migratory birds every year and is also used by the village livestock, earns a handsome amount of profit for the village panchayat, which leases the water body for producing water chestnuts to farmers.

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