Indian Horticulture Journal
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 3and4

Roof-top Micro Organic Farm: A Promising Initiative to Enhance the Vegetable Production

  • Author:
  • Vivekanand Bharti, Kapil Sukhadeo Sukhdhane, L Remya
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 114 to 116

Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR), Kochi-18, Kerala, India

*e-mail: vivekanandbharti15@gmail.com

Online published on 20 December, 2016.

Abstract

The growth of the population and simultaneous reduction of agricultural farm create a big challenge to fulfill the demand of food in the world. The utilization of available unutilized/underutilized space of the roof-top on every house for growing of different types vegetables is a scope to increase vegetable production. There are several advantages of this technique such as utilization of free space of the roof, production of healthy and fresh vegetables, harvesting of rain water in an efficient manner, better saving to the family, utilization of kitchen waste and reduction of solid waste as well as air pollution in the environment.

Keywords

Roof-top, Organic farm, Space, Vegetables, Sustainable