DOI: 10.5958/2249-7137.2026.00025.2 ISSN: 2249-7137

Techniques of Cultivation and Methods on Building Based Integrated Farming in Urban Agriculture

Kartik Chandra Sahu

In recent scenario the urban agriculture in terms of building based integrated farming in cities grow rapidly. Various types of plants has been grown in urban area, now the basically hub of the cultivation in buildings in cities. The building based cultivation carried out in the varieties of methods in terms of perform cultivated place withi8n the buildings, such are known as rooftop farming, rooftop garden, balcony garden, terrace garden and the vertical garden, hanging gardens etc. There is diversity of plants grown in the building as per the used by the cities farmers. Such as the vegetables, Fruits, Spice as food, Flowers as ornamental, medicinal etc. are grown in building based integrated farming in the system. In this study implication of use of containers in this cultivation which has fixed and movable commodity used in the same farming, Combine used as Grow bags, Concrete pots, Polythene bag, Plastic drums, Earthen pots, cement carry bags use in groups as per their dominancy. The containers have been choice according to the characteristic and cultivation methods of the plant species. The present study containers has been fixed on the roofs this type of cultivation in Belayed, Lawns, Beds, Vertical garden settled in a groups in the buildings. The study express planting materials has used on put off in containers, beds or lawns in different farms. Further the soil used in a building based farming. Most of the soil being used Garden soil and crop field soil, again the planted material for cultivation belong to propagates like seeds, seedlings, plants part and Bio-fertilizers and manures used in the processes. The methods of water supply and tools combinations has been adopted, most of the combination has traditional by mug, Jug, Plastic pipe and in spry form. The combinational study all the materials, technique and the methods used in the building based mixed farming.

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