VideoA Rooftop Farm in the Colours of the Flag
Mirpur dentist Dr M A Odud Sarkar has filled his 2,800 sq ft roof with fruit and crops, while calling for quality seedlings and policy support for urban farming.
VideoMirpur dentist Dr M A Odud Sarkar has filled his 2,800 sq ft roof with fruit and crops, while calling for quality seedlings and policy support for urban farming.
A retired Janata Bank officer in Mymensingh has filled his roof with over 600 fruit, flower and medicinal plants.
Ash gourd, or chalkumra, is a popular vegetable that can be grown with simple methods on beds, rooftops or house roofs.
VideoIn Goran, Dhaka, Najma Akter Neela has turned 15 years of rooftop farming into a profitable venture, raising healthy seedlings for new urban farmers.
VideoBeside Hatirjheel in Dhaka, a doctor couple has continued the family's rooftop farm and urges government action on quality seedlings.
VideoOn the roof of Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station, the officer-in-charge has planted a collection of fruit trees, part of a trend on government buildings.
VideoIn Uttarkhan, Dhaka, Meherunnesa Maya has packed a 1,300 sq ft roof with fruit, crops and plants, inspired by her mother.
VideoRooftop farming has become a social movement, and Local Government Ministry additional secretary Mesbah Uddin, an agriculturist, keeps a rooftop farm alongside his work.
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.
Retired Brigadier Azizul Haque has turned a 2,300 sq ft roof in Mohakhali DOHS into an orchard of common and rare fruits since 2013.