A girl looks at a shoe made of loofah on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. The dried, fibrous part of the loofa fruit, which is usually trashed, now can be made into shoes. Huang Youshui, a farmer from Dongxiang County in east China's Jiangxi Province invented a new method to produce the loofah shoes, which has been identified as an organic product by the China Organic Food Certification Center. [Photo: jxnews.com.cn]
(CRI June 18, 2008)