Read at :
http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/11/24/bangalore%e2%80%99s-urban-agriculture-boom/
Bangalore’s urban agriculture boom
Linked by Michael Levenston
Bangaloreans are starting a movement to grow organic food for their families.
http://www.newint.org/blog/2011/11/24/bangalore-urban-agriculture/
By Mari Marcel Thekaekara |
New Internationalist
Nov 25, 2011
Excerpt:
Before it hit the headlines in the mid nineties, as a high-tech international ‘IT city’, which Bangalored jobs from all around the globe, Bangalore was known as ‘India’s garden city’, a pensioner’s paradise. It was a charming little town, sleepy and laid back. Everyone took pride in their gardens. Even now, apart from the terrible infrastructure because the city couldn’t cope with the huge influx of people who flooded in to run the IT centres, the old parts of Bangalore town are still charming. Quiet, safe neighbourhoods filled with trees, flowers, cottages, tiled roofs, and nice old houses: generally a far nicer city than Mumbai, Delhi or Kolkata.
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