VideoGreen and Ripe Mangoes in November on a Dhanmondi Rooftop
On a Dhanmondi building shared by ten families, Shafiqul Islam's rooftop farm, started in 2008, bears mangoes even in November thanks to year-round varieties.
VideoOn a Dhanmondi building shared by ten families, Shafiqul Islam's rooftop farm, started in 2008, bears mangoes even in November thanks to year-round varieties.
VideoHead teacher Nripendra Chandra Das has covered the roof of Lohajang Girls' Pilot High School in Munshiganj with a dragon fruit garden.
VideoDental professors Shamsul Alam and Hosne Ara Mery have built a rooftop farm over two decades, a green rhythm for their busy professional lives.
VideoIn Pirerbag, Dhaka, Mohammad Naeem has turned his mother's hobby rooftop garden into a fully organic 2,400 sq ft farm since 2017.
An expatriate hobby farmer in Cumilla Sadar Dakshin has harvested one and a half maunds of ridge gourd in a month from wooden boxes on his rooftop.
The rare, fragrant night queen flower has bloomed in a rooftop garden in Shariatpur's Naria upazila, from a plant brought from Khulna three decades ago.
An education officer in Chirirbandar has turned the roof of his two-storey office into a garden of 28 kinds of fruit tree grown in tubs.
AgribusinessA month-by-month guide to what to sow, plant and harvest in Bangladesh's vegetable plots and orchards through the Kharif-1, Kharif-2 and Rabi seasons, from Baishakh to Chaitra, checked against the Agriculture Information Service.
Rooftop farmingIn March 2018 Ahsan Habib Ratan's hobby garden on the roof of his house in Naogaon town's Sultanpur area held about 80 kinds of plants, and orange trees he had planted in drums a year earlier were bearing fruit, Jagonews24 reported.
A salaried worker in Pirojpur town has built a rooftop garden of 40 kinds of fruit and vegetables that now largely feeds his family.
In Adabor, agricultural extension officials A B M Siddique and Anwara Sharmin have turned their six-storey roof into a farm of about 60 kinds of plants.