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Bangladesh: Roof top agro farm getting popularity

Dilruba Alam has achieved great success in the roof gardening

In 2018, the DAE undertook a three year project on urban agricultural development to establish 600 rooftop gardens in the capital. There are about 6,975 roof gardens in Dhaka under our supervision.”

By Md Joynal Abedin Khan
Daily Industry
Feb 28

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According to the Bangladesh Agriculture Information Service (BAIS), Dhaka city has about 450,000 roofs with the area of more than 5,000 hectares. Most of the roofs were left empty, but nowadays house owners are building roof gardens to spend their leisure time and greener their roofs.

At present, there are around 30,000 rooftop gardens in the capital – covering 7 per cent of the total number of roofs, reports BAIS.

Meanwhile, a study of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University claims that about 41 pc rooftop garden owners in Dhaka is young, 30pc middle-aged and 29 pc elderly persons.

Dr Sabikun Nahar, from the Gynaecology Department of Dhaka Medical College, took the initiative to make a rooftop garden at her old house during the shutdown as she was encouraged by some friends and tree lovers in different social media groups.

At present there are about 120 trees of 30-35 species in her garden. Although she started with some flower and fruit trees, she is now planting vegetables as well.

Her fruit trees included lemon, pomegranate, guava, and mango. Meanwhile, her vegetables are long bean, eggplant, gourd, water spinach, malabar spinach, ridge-gourd and papaya. Further, Nahar is cultivating various medicinal plants and herbs including neem and aloe vera.

She said, “Inspired by friends’, I became interested in rooftop gardening during the [novel] coronavirus pandemic period.”

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