Professor Salam's Innovative Rooftop Farm
BAU aquaculture professor Abdus Salam, who pioneered bag gardens, has built a soilless, chemical-free rooftop system that links fish and crops.
BAU aquaculture professor Abdus Salam, who pioneered bag gardens, has built a soilless, chemical-free rooftop system that links fish and crops.
In Rampura, Golam Haider runs a commercial rooftop nursery, experiments with aquaponics and campaigns through Bangladesh Green Roof Movement.
Rooftop farmingIn Badda, former expatriate Jane Alam Jony has turned a 6,000 sq ft roof into a garden of more than a hundred plants in four years.
In Gulshan-2, businessman Nazimuddin and his wife Shefali Begum have turned a 25-katha roof into a forest-like garden over ten years.
On the roof of the MPs' residential building, Aleya Azam has spent seven years building a garden of fruit, vegetables and medicinal plants.
Retired insurance officer A A Kamruzzaman's two rose plants in 2003 grew into a two-level rooftop farm in Gulshan-1 with about a hundred species.
In Panchlaish Hillview, Chattogram, Shamsul Alam has tended a well-planned rooftop farm for fifteen years, supplying his family with fresh vegetables and fruit.