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Promotion of Urban Agriculture through Rooftop Farming
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Rapid urbanization and creating enormous stress on basic urban services and local food security. The situation is more critical in Kathmandu Valley, one of the fastest urbanizing cities in Asia. Roof Top Farming (RTF) offer an alternative growing space to provide fresh vegetable products for city dwellers along with reuse opportunity of organic waste in productive way. In the latest year, RTF is getting popular among the city dwellers. COVID pandemic lockdown is pushing city dwellers to grow their own fruit and vegetables in their homes. However, they lack technical knowhow and effective and innovative techniques to enhance the rooftop farming practice.
Publisher:
UN-Habitat, LMC, HASERA and Story Clycle ,   (2023 )
Type / Script:
Others in English
Keywords:
Green Rooftop, Rooftop Farming, Water for Life
Thematic Group:
 UNHABITAT : Human Settlements
Thesaurus:
04.01.02  -  Agricultural Sciences, Engineering And Education
Reference Link:
https://unhabitat.org.np/recent_publish_detail/promotion-of-urban-agriculture-through-rooftop-farming-english
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