Advanced Rooftop Farming Research at Chattogram Veterinary University
Inspired by a television programme, students and teachers at Chattogram Veterinary University are researching integrated rooftop farming systems.
Inspired by a television programme, students and teachers at Chattogram Veterinary University are researching integrated rooftop farming systems.
In Park Circus, West Bengal, Liakat Hossain and his wife have built a rooftop fruit garden that eases the loneliness of an emptier home.
On Martyred Intellectuals Day, Shykh Seraj visits the Eskaton rooftop garden of Shaon Mahmud, daughter of the martyred composer Altaf Mahmud.
In Merul Badda, 72-year-old Abul Hashem has spent twelve years building a two-level rooftop farm that combines fruit and crops with sheep and pigeons.
A girls' high school in Narayanganj has turned its 8,000 sq ft roof into a garden and practical botany classroom for its 1,500 students.
On the roof of a seven-storey garment factory beside the Shitalakshya in Narayanganj, the owner has built a rooftop farm that has turned commercial.
Since 2003, Bangladesh Bank officer Abu Naser Mohammad Rafiq has grown fruit, flowers and vegetables without pesticides on his 1,950 sq ft roof in Sipahibagh, Dhaka.
In Banani, Sabiha Ahmed has spent eight years building a neat three-level rooftop farm and urges planning roof farms when houses are built.
In Gulshan, A A Kamruzzaman runs a fully organic rooftop farm, taking advice from a horticulture expert and growing vegetables in discarded bathtubs.
In Lalmatia, Rahela Halim has kept a 2,500 sq ft rooftop garden for 16 years, finding joy there despite physical disability.
In Rajshahi, young horticulturist Shaheen Salehuddin has farmed his roof for ten years and turned an indoor plant nursery into a profitable business.
On the roof of the Agriculture Secretary's official residence in Eskaton, his wife Nasima Khanam has built a productive rooftop farm of fruit and vegetables.
Retired government official Tajul Islam of Indira Road has kept a rooftop farm since the early 1990s and designed his building around it.