Hanshan Water Chestnuts

Hanshan Water Chestnuts

　　Hanshan water chestnuts are a specialty of Hanshan County, Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province. Water chestnuts are a pollution-free green aquatic product, highly favored by residents of large and medium-sized cities.

　　Situated between the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers, Huanfeng Town in Hanshan County, Anhui Province, features picturesque landscapes and a pleasant climate. The area has an abundance of crisscrossing waterways in Mahu Weir and Daxi Weir, as well as plentiful water resources. The hot and humid climate and fertile soil are very suitable for growing water chestnuts. In recent years, the local government has implemented preferential policies to encourage farmers to plant water chestnuts on a large scale, develop characteristic agriculture, and established a team of rural brokers to help farmers sell their water chestnuts.

　　Hanshan County has thousands of acres of wild-looking water chestnuts distributed across towns such as Tongzha, Huanfeng, and Zhanggong. Whether they are truly wild is still pending expert identification by the provincial agricultural science institute. However, hundreds of acres of wild water chestnuts in Zhangwan and Qichen villages in Lintou Town have been confirmed by the provincial agricultural science institute as genuine wild water chestnuts—rare ecological treasures that are not commonly found in the Chaohu Lake basin.