Over the past five years, the rooftop farming series has featured several educational institutions where teachers and students run rooftop farms, and the trend has grown in the last two or three years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools worldwide were closed, some people started farming on roofs, balconies or yards, inspired by farming programmes on television or rooftop farming videos on YouTube, where they also learned the techniques.
A head teacher's initiative
The credit for the farm on the main building of Lohajang Girls' Pilot High School goes entirely to head teacher Nripendra Chandra Das. An enthusiastic man, he learned through various media and built a dragon fruit garden on the roof.
A whole roof of dragon fruit
The programme has seen small dragon fruit gardens or one or two fruiting plants on many roofs, but a garden of dragon fruit covering the whole roof is truly novel.
Source: Shykh Seraj, Chhad Krishi (episode 206). First published in Bengali on The Agro News.
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