Rooftop gardens can do a great deal to cool cities and add oxygen to the air, writes Debashish Kanti Biswas in a piece published on Sunday in Chattogram's Dainik Azadi. Besides raising oxygen, he says, they supply families with chemical-free, balanced food. The views are the writer's own.
He proposes technical training in setting up gardens and free distribution of fruit, vegetable and other crop saplings, which he believes would quickly turn rooftop gardening into a 'social movement'. Responsible citizens, young people and the relevant government departments should work on it together, he writes.
He also suggests awareness programmes on the environment and tree planting, delivered digitally, in educational institutions in every district and upazila.
Rooftop gardens are not only an urban need, in his view; they should spread to villages too, where a kind of 'mini urbanisation' is under way, so that families in town and country alike can meet their nutritional needs. Planting fruit, medicinal, timber and crop trees in homesteads and on fallow roadside land can make families more self-reliant and add to the national economy.
The writer proposes a pledge: whenever a tree has to be felled, plant at least three saplings in its place. Without that kind of care for nature, he warns, the hard road of climate change we travel today could become far worse for our children.
Writer: Debashish Kanti Biswas, Dainik Azadi
Photo: Adityamadhav83 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Source: Dainik Azadi
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