Accusing Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) of ’carrying on research upon the diktats of US-based Monsanto’, farmers and environmental organisations on Friday staged protests at the field trial sites of Genetically Engineered brinjal within the campus. More than 100 activists of Greenpeace, ’Pasumai Thaayagam’, the green wing of PMK, and Tamil Nadu Agriculture Protestion Committee, along with a several farmers marched to the site holding placards and banners and raised slogans demanding stoppage of all GE field trials. They alleged that the University was being ”converted into a property of Monsanto”.