Rooftop Gardening: Best Use of top space in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rooftop Gardening: Best Use of top space in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Assure Group)

The way food becomes necessary during hunger, implementing the idea of rooftop gardening has become a similar kind of important to repair the lung of Dhaka city. The rooftop garden is a garden on the roof of a building. It is an eco-friendly plan that offers the opportunity to get close to nature and harvest fruits and vegetables with our own hands. It is a must doing initiative which would be the best use for the top space of a rapidly growing city like Dhaka.

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh and a city of at least 10 million people made it one of the most densely populated countries in the world which suffered unrecoverable damage to the green areas of the city. Having the most polluted air, the residents of this city are forced to live in a dusty, polluted, toxic, and poisonous environment. The rapid growth of Bangladesh`s capital has destroyed crucial ecosystems, caused rising temperatures, and quickly lost its green. There is only one way to bring back its green, good air and repair its lung is “rooftop gardening”.

Recently, the city has been ranked second in the US Air Quality Index of the world’s worst cities for air pollution. To fight back from such a damaged and polluted environment, the rooftop garden movement can be a good way considering the growing popularity of the city as experts say that, apart from the obvious aesthetics, can improve air quality, provide fresh food, and lower ambient temperature. Large-scale implementation of roof gardens in Dhaka will reduce the urban heat island effect, carbon dioxide and increase oxygen content in the atmosphere. Green practices will also create new opportunities for food security and security, nutrition, employment, and city planning. In addition to decorative benefits, roof coverings have temperature control, hydrological benefits, architectural enhancements, wildlife habitats or corridors, recreational opportunities, and even ecological benefits on a large scale.

While Dhaka has lost its total biodiversity, It is the rooftop gardeners who can create new types of biodiversity in urban nature. Various types of birds, bees, and insects can be evacuated. At the same time, some enthusiastic gardeners breed pigeons and koels side by side in the garden. It provides them with both fresh and safe vegetables and meat. What's more, it contributes to the health of the family and saves a lot of food.

Apart from all such benefits, since high demand for roof gardens has been created, new professions and working sources are being created as well, such as caring for plants, growing plants, preparing fertilizers, and creating flowerpots with profitable designs. New start-up companies could also be created soon along with its increase in popularity who would provide professional services to maintain a private garden for maximum productivity to support the city dwellers.

During the day, the air quality of Dhaka is deteriorating day by day. Toxic industrial gas CO2 from vehicles makes the air dangerous and toxic to breathe. It's like a slow poison that the city dwellers are breathing. It is “rooftop Gardening” which would help the city to regain its fresh environment. Apart from environmental benefits, this program would beautify the city and will help its dwellers economically and psychologically as well. So, without a dot of doubt, Rooftop gardening would be the best use of top space in Dhaka.