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Kashmiri woman squats on short wooden skis, slides called 'Pachee Khraw Khoor,' as she picks water chestnuts from mud and weed on marsh, they either walk through shallow water and deep, sticky mud on January 05, 2018 in Kolhom, north of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Administered Kashmir, India. Water chestnuts are a major crop for people living near Wular lake, Asia's second largest freshwater lake. Wular, looks more like a flat marshy plain than a large lake in winters, as the water level recedes and the entire families collect and extract the marble-sized fruit from its spiky casing. The sun-dried chestnuts are later sold in markets, particularly in summer capital city Srinagar, and are consumed raw or roasted and even ground into a flour which locals say has medicinal properties. Now it is also in demand for its anti-diabetic properties, and is used by diabetic patients, because it is free of both cholesterol and fat. Some researchers are even investigating whether the fruit has cancer-fighting properties. Six kilograms of the processed stuff, dealers said, is sold at $4.74 , and rates go up as the winter progresses. The shells of the chestnuts do not go to waste and Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty