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Urban Rooftop Farming-A Food Security Measure |
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by Sahara Shrestha | 23-04-2020 03:33
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Hello and Warm Namaste Everyone here from Nepal. Hope you all are doing great and staying immune right now. HAPPY EARTH DAY 2020.Climate action is the main theme of 50th Earth Day.
So,On this very occasion I would like to share about my small rooftop cultivation at my home. Rooftop Farming can be practiced in the balcony, rooftop where you receive ample amount of sunlight. Chilli, coriander, brinjal, fababean,tomato strawberries, pepinomelons can be easily grown. However some climber like cucumbers, beans can also be cultivated with proper management techniques.Flowers, medicinal herbs and indoor plants are used to beautifully decorate the balconies , room, and corridor. For this , we need plastic pots of required size (depends on optimum root coverage) having drainage hole and the potting mixture. You can select plant as per the climate, season and obviously your choice. In Nepal, people are getting allowance for doing rooftop farming in the capital which is a great step put forward by government. And due to COVID-19 pandemic , it is presumed around 25 crores people will be suffering from hunger in near future.So rooftop farming can be very good way out for future food security. I have cultivated chilli, cucumbers and cow pea beans for this season and pepinomelons. Urban rooftop farming have lots of advantage: 1.Fresh vegetables and fruits can regularly be consumed. 2.Safe and pesticides free vegetables keeps us free from various dangerous diseases like cancer,tumor. 3. You dont have to rely on the market products thus ensuring food security. 4. Having Green and clean environment keeps us mentally and spiritually healthy. 5. Most importantly, in urban areas by cultivating plants like sensivaria, syngonium. bottlebrush we can reduce carbon dioxide releasing to the atmosphere and give out more oxygen . 6.Utilizing plastic utensils, we reduce the plastics waste and here we take small step towards leaving low carbon footprints. As I always believe, everyone of our step counts, on this earth day, lets vow to make sure to take steady and green steps to bring out global green climate.Our steps can be small, but make sure it is clean and green. Lets remember, The Earth is our only home and our every step counts either clean or mean. Choice is all ours. Green Cheers. Thank You.
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6 Comments
Thank you so much sharing your ideas
Posted 27-04-2020 15:38
Hello Sahara,
So glad to see you posting your quality actions during this leisure time. Keep on sharing.
Yours
Asmita
Posted 26-04-2020 16:41
Hello Sahara,
Nice to know about rooftop farming. thank you for sharing the information as recently we are doing our research and case study on rooftop farming and peoples perception about it.
Due to pandemic nowadays, we could see more green roofs than before.
Also, these rooftop gardens are really of very wide scope than we think. they have significant from climate change to food security and urban rain water run-off problems.
sooner, i complete my work i will share some of my findings here in tunza.
Thank you for more recent update.
Regards,
Sandesh
Posted 23-04-2020 23:49
Hello Sahara!!
I Hope you are doing great!
It's great to know that you are having very productive lockdown days.
Roof top farming is one of the best way to utilize our roof especially in urban area where we have limited area.Its can provide us fresh and healthy vegetables.
Thanks for sharing!
Hope to know more from you!
GREEN CHEERS!!
Regards,
Sonika!
Posted 23-04-2020 20:54
Hello Sahara!!
I hope you are fine and doing great.
Rooftop farming is very beneficial in urban area.
Keep writing and shining.
Hope to know more from you.
Warm regards,
Meena
GREEN CHEERS
Posted 23-04-2020 15:18
Hello Sahara,
Roof top farming is very beneficial especially in the places where we have very less space to grow vegetables or other plants.
Thanks for sharing
Regards
Sudha
Posted 23-04-2020 12:38