Rooftop farmingRooftop Farming on the Cox's Bazar District Administration Building
In fast-growing Cox's Bazar, the district administration has kept a 12,000 sq ft rooftop farm on its three-storey building for four years.
Rooftop farmingIn fast-growing Cox's Bazar, the district administration has kept a 12,000 sq ft rooftop farm on its three-storey building for four years.
Dhaka University maths professor Dr Shahidul Islam and his wife have turned the roof of their Fuller Road residence into a garden of fruit, vegetables and herbs.
In Ashulia, Savar, Farzana Chowdhury has built a rooftop garden of fruit, vegetables, flowers and medicinal plants to help the environment.
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will hold an exhibition on rooftop farming, Mayor Md Atiqul Islam announced on 2 July.
The leafy top you throw away from a pineapple can grow into a new plant that bears fruit, with little care.
A hobby rooftop grape garden in Sitakunda with 55 varieties has produced sweet fruit, delighting its owner and the local agriculture office.
A first-year college student in Gaibandha has grown a rooftop strawberry garden from a single seedling and now advises others who want to try it.
Shekhar Mondal's rooftop garden in Dhaka's Kalabagan, planted in discarded tyres instead of pots, meets 80 per cent of his family's nutritional needs.
A rooftop garden of winter vegetables can supply fresh, safe food, add income and help counter global warming, and large tubs make it safe for the roof.
Rooftop farmingIn Mirpur DOHS, where most roofs are green, Shamima Sultana has built a three-tier rooftop farm of about 200 kinds of plants on an eight-storey building.
The government will give a 10 per cent holding tax rebate for buildings with rooftop gardens, on condition that they do not breed mosquitoes.
A former expatriate in Narayanganj's Fatullah has filled a rooftop with grape vines of about 35 varieties that now supply his family and relatives.
Nurun Nahar Begum has turned the 1,500 sq ft roof of her six-storey home in Siddhirganj into a garden of more than 250 fruit, flower, vegetable and medicinal plants.