Jaipur innovates - promotes roof top gardens for vegetables

Jaipur is setting a new trend in farming - it is promoting rooftop gardens to grow vegetables of daily needs, vegetables like ladies fingers, chilies, tomatoes etcetera. It is an initiative of Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) and it wants people to grow fresh ladyfinger for lunch and take it with mint yogurt accompanied with pesticide-free tomatoes for salad. The veggies could be plucked from a roof-top vegetable garden and it could soon become a way of life for people of Jaipur.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 3 Fenruary 2016.

The work will be undertaken as a part of the Smart City project and the JMC is framing bylaws to make terrace vegetable farming mandatory in the city. It will be an effort to make the city terraces green. In some foreign countries, partially covering the rooftops of new buildings with plants or solar panels is a must. Jaipur plans to follow suit.
A kit has been developed - it is a plant-growing kit that consists of light-fibre `grow bags'. Several vegetables, including leafy ones, can be grown on the terrace with the help of the kit.
Vegetables consumed in the city are at present fed by the `polluted' waters of Dravyavati river. But, in the case of home grown veggies there would not be any need for using chemicals or pesticides. Rather, organic methods will be used for this green endeavor.


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