Axing the eucalyptus

INDONESIA

Troubled tycoon

A big shot at nylon

Police fire kills 1, and Goa's Thapar DuPont nylon venture takes a dive

Palmed off

An oil with several ill-effects

The seeds of trouble

Privatisation of tea and rubber plantations has endangered the flora and fauna in southern Sri Lanka

Wood substitutes threaten plywood industry

A CPWD proposal to ban use of timber in construction has generated friction between manufacturers of wood substitutes and plywood, with each side …

Moneymakers

Guatemala

PLANTATION BLUES

BRAZIL

Trade mark for tea

Another step forward for the Darjeeling tea logo scheme

Poignant Images

Under attack

Mile-a-minute solution

Fungus to weed out the plague of India's tea plantations

Coffee - not for birds

Pesticide jeopardy

Conduct epidemiological study, says court

Coorg cardamom gets GI status

Cheap fix

The rush to make profits out of carbon-fixing engenders another kind of colonialism

Go-ahead for Indo-ASEAN free trade agreement

Green light for Indo-ASEAN free trade agreement

Probing a pesticide tragedy

Laboratory tests nail the Plantation Corporation of Kerala. The state government sets up an inquiry committee

Endosulfan manufacturers seek time on how to dispose of unused stocks of the pesticide

Supreme Court to meet on November 11

State of endosulfan

Ban on the pesticide in Kerala ineffective; more children fall victim, shows survey

Kerala gets cautious

Plans to ban extremely and moderately hazardous pesticides in cardamom district, Idukki

Western Ghats: lessons in protection