A College Teacher's Rooftop Farm Gives Meaning to Retirement
In Mirpur, retired college teacher Professor Azizur Rahman has spent two and a half years building a productive 1,300 sq ft rooftop farm.
In Mirpur, retired college teacher Professor Azizur Rahman has spent two and a half years building a productive 1,300 sq ft rooftop farm.
VideoSince retiring in 2001, former DAE director general M Enamul Haque has researched adapting about 300 plant species to rooftop farming in Manipuripara, Dhaka.
VideoThe Department of Agricultural Botany at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University has built a model rooftop farm to research rooftop farming and train entrepreneurs.
VideoPart of the large roof of Asha Tower in Shyamoli, Dhaka, has become a rooftop farm producing toxin-free fruit and vegetables that its owners plan to turn into a model.
VideoIn Mohakhali DOHS, Jarnigar Chowdhury's organic rooftop garden of flowers and seasonal crops has become a source of wellbeing and healing.
VideoIn Uttara, the joint family of retired official Nazrul Islam has farmed the roof since 1994, and the garden has helped hold the family together.
Rooftop farmingA Mirpur rooftop of 2,000 square feet has become an automated, integrated aquaponics farm growing fish, fruit and vegetables together.
Rooftop farmingIn Chattogram's Lakeview area, the co-owners of a residential building have jointly built a rooftop collection of local and foreign flowers.
Rooftop farmingSher-e-Bangla Agricultural University is testing rooftop farming models, while in Jamaica, New York, expatriate Labonee Mustafa grows Bangladeshi vegetables in her yard.
Rooftop farming is now part of many Bangladeshi homes, and Bangladeshis abroad are following the same path with yard farming, from Sirajganj to Toronto.
Retired army officer Abdul Hannan Sharif's rooftop farm in Mirpur DOHS supplies all his family's vegetables and salad during Ramadan.
For a decade, Siddiqa Begum of Rajabazar has farmed her 2,000 sq ft roof organically, bringing a taste of village life to the capital.
On the roof of his six-storey Merul Badda home, Abdul Khaleque grows toxin-free fruit and crops using modern technology and organic methods.