On a bright Sunday during the first week of this month, Namma Santhe - Navachetana Trust's first organic market, with 20 odd stalls selling vegetables and fruits, spice mixes, packaged health products, herbal plants, and eco friendly bags, attracted a mixed crowd. Middle class couples hoping for fresh produce and interesting pickles, a considerable number of the elite who had developed an interest in sustainable living, and the common man curious as to what the whole thing was about.

One could hear occasional grumbles about the setting - the grounds of a school in Vidyaranyapura in north Bangalore. When some visitors…

A federal judge on Tuesday said farmers can harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling the economic impact too great and that environmental groups waited too long to request that the crop be yanked from the ground and otherwise barred from the market.

Nearly all sugar beets planted are genetically engineered and the crop accounts for half the US sugar supply. U.S. Distr

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Coimbatore, March 15: High-energy organic dates that used to be cultivated only in the Gulf are now being planted in and around Coimbatore. Over 3,000 acres in Tamil Nadu alone are covered by these palms but there is not much support from the government.

Dates are neglected and TNAU should take up initiatives to conduct research on date cultivation in the western belt of Tamil Nadu, says Mr R.

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