A B M Siddique and Anwara Sharmin of Adabor in the capital deserve special credit for turning their roof into a cultivated field. The garden has fulfilled their dream of staying deeply connected with farming, a lesson they learned from life, and they keep farming bound to their lives amid the city's routine.
Extension officials at home
A B M Siddique retired from the government's Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), where Anwara Sharmin still works. She said she has fruit trees, foliage and guava, and has planted 6,000 trees since 2003.
Planned in 1997
Their home is house 14 in the PC Culture area of Adabor. When it was built in 1997, they planned the six-storey building's roof as a full farm. A few years later it was full of about 60 kinds of flowers, fruit and vegetables, giving the family toxin-free food every day and clean air.
A call for rules
Anwara Sharmin said their society has 1,200 houses; if each had 20 pots, imagine the oxygen, when people now suffer from a lack of it. She suggested the government could require each house to keep 50 pots. Siddique said people now compete to live on the sixth floor because the garden brings breeze and keeps it cool, and the idea is spreading to neighbours' roofs.
Source: Shykh Seraj, Chhad Krishi. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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