CropsAl Amin of Basail in Tangail planted pomegranates in drums on his roof in 2023 to give his cancer-stricken mother safe fruit; by July 2026 he kept 26 varieties and said grafted saplings earned him Tk 60,000-80,000 a month.
Rooftop farmingSharmin Akter of Binodpur, Rajshahi, came first in the rooftop garden category of the National Tree Plantation Award 2025; she says saplings and pots from the garden she began in 2022 earn her about Tk 12 lakh a year.
Rooftop farmingPigeons kept on roofs, balconies and in small coops were becoming a low-capital source of income in Bangladesh, a Jagonews24 feature said on 5 May 2026, with farmers citing Tk 5,000 to Tk 10,000 or more a pair for improved breeds.
A private-sector employee in Boalmari has built a rooftop garden of several thousand plants, led by the adenium or 'desert rose', that now earns him a steady monthly income.
Rooftop farmingIn Boxnagar, Demra, Shah Alam's 2,200 sq ft rooftop grows more than a hundred kinds of fruit, vegetables and ornamentals, with hydroponics and a pigeon loft.
VegetablesA rooftop garden that Nazmun Nahan began as a hobby about five years earlier was giving her family in Dhaka's Bashundhara fresh vegetables almost every day, Jagonews24 reported in December 2025.
AgribusinessIn November 2025 more than a hundred nurseries along the riverbank in Uttara's sectors 15 and 16 were busy with the winter flower season, and their owners said 40 to 50 per cent of buyers were rooftop gardeners.
Agriculturist Ibad Ali of Jashore has developed "root technology", which uses shallow beds matched to root needs to grow up to ten times more vegetables on a rooftop.
Rooftop gardens do not repair the ozone layer directly, but by cooling cities, absorbing carbon dioxide and trapping pollution they play an indirect part in protecting it.
A team at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University is researching biofloc technology that lets people raise fish in drums and tanks on rooftops.
A step-by-step guide to growing green chillies in containers on a rooftop, from soil mix and care to pests, diseases and harvest.
As trees vanish from cities, rooftop gardens can clean the air, cool homes, grow safe food and help manage rainwater, a World Environment Day feature argues.
KM Sabuj began making bonsai from four tamarind seedlings bought for Tk 100 and, 29 years on, has about 20,000 bonsai of 450 species in progress at his Gazipur nursery.
