Besides being an eco-friendly substitute for gasoline, sugar canes in fields reflect sunlight back into space, lowering the temperature of the surrounding air as the plants ‘exhale' cooler water.
April 20, 2011 11:52 pm | Updated 11:52 pm IST
A sugarcane seller on Ring road near nandini layout in Bangalore on Monday. The sugar canes arrived for the sankrathi and Pogal Festival from Mandya and other districts. The prices come down compare to last year. A bunch of sugarcane cost Rs 120 last year it was Rs 180 on the same day. Photo: G R N Somashekar, Bangalore 11 JAN 2010.
Besides being an eco-friendly substitute for gasoline, sugar canes in fields reflect sunlight back into space, lowering the temperature of the surrounding air as the plants ‘exhale' cooler water.
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